Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 34
This is the pinnacle above and to the north of the Hilltop Hotel, on the divide where the traveller gets his first sight of Akaroa lying more than a thousand feet below.
Who acts: This, traveller · What happens: be, get, lie, sight · To what, where: pinnacle, first sight, thousand feet, Akaroa
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 (This, traveller), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pinnacle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pinnacle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pinnacle | det |
| 4 | pinnacle | pinnacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | above | above | ADV | _ | 4 pinnacle | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 north | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 north | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 north | det |
| 9 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pinnacle | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hotel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hotel | det |
| 12 | Hilltop | Hilltop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hotel | compound |
| 13 | Hotel | Hotel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 north | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 divide | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 divide | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 divide | det |
| 17 | divide | divide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pinnacle | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 gets | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 traveller | det |
| 20 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gets | nsubj |
| 21 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 divide | acl:relcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sight | nmod:poss |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 sight | amod |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gets | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Akaroa | case |
| 26 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | nmod |
| 27 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 gets | advcl |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 31 thousand | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 more | fixed |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 thousand | det |
| 31 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 feet | nummod |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | below | below | ADV | _ | 32 feet | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pinnacle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the pinnacle and the north of the Hilltop Hotel and the divide | the north of the Hilltop Hotel conj; the divide conj; above property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | present | the traveller | traveller's first sight of Akaroa | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the traveller not said here | thousand feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sight | traveller | Akaroa | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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