Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 33

There is another rugged, dark volcanic crag, wooded about its base, crowning one of these Peninsula ridges, of which the Old Man of Rapaki has a poetic story.

Who acts: rugged dark volcanic crag, Old Man · What happens: be, wood, crown, have · To what, where: one, poetic story

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rugged dark volcanic crag, Old Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 crag	det
4	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crag	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rugged	punct
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crag	amod
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crag	amod
8	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wooded	punct
10	wooded	wood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 base	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 base	nmod:poss
13	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wooded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crowning	punct
15	crowning	crown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wooded	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 crowning	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 ridges	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 ridges	det
19	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ridges	compound
20	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 has	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Man	det
25	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Man	amod
26	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 has	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Rapaki	case
28	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Man	nmod
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 crowning	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 story	det
31	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 story	amod
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	another rugged dark volcanic crag		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wood	past	another rugged dark volcanic crag not said here			about Bulben's base	tree rules
3	crown	gerund	another rugged dark volcanic crag not said here	one of this Peninsula ridges			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	have	present	the Old Man of Rapaki	a poetic story		which obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 33