Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 39

Often at sunset a cloud-cap would rest lightly on the dark skull of the fairy crag, and to this cloud the declining sun would impart a bright red glow, the _kura_ of the Maori.

Who acts: cloud cap, declining sun · What happens: rest, decline, impart · To what, where: dark skull, bright red glow

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 (cloud cap, declining sun), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	9 rest	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 sunset	case
3	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cap	det
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cloud	punct
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 rest	aux
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	9 rest	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 skull	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skull	det
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 skull	amod
14	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 crag	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crag	det
17	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crag	amod
18	crag	crag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skull	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 impart	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 impart	cc
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 cloud	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 cloud	det
23	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 impart	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun	det
25	declining	decline	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 sun	amod
26	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 impart	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 impart	aux
28	impart	impart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 rest	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 glow	det
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 glow	amod
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 glow	amod
32	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 impart	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kura	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 kura	det
35	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 kura	amod
36	kura	kura	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glow	conj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 impart	punct
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Maori	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Maori	det
40	Maori	Maori	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 _	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	would	a cloud cap		the dark skull of the fairy crag	sunset	lightly, often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skull=Location
2	decline	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	impart	would	the declining sun	a bright red glow and the _ kura			to this cloud; the Maori nmod	tree rules

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 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 39