Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 43
It lends itself to more than one euphonious variant in the _pakeha_-tongue, as “Red Cloud’s Rest,” or “Place of the Sunset’s Glow.”
Who acts: wester, Sunset · What happens: lend, glow · To what, where: wester
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 (wester, Sunset), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lends | nsubj |
| 2 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 lends | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 variant | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 one | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 variant | nummod |
| 8 | euphonious | euphonious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 variant | amod |
| 9 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lends | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pakeha | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pakeha | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 pakeha | punct |
| 13 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 variant | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 tongue | punct |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tongue | punct |
| 16 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pakeha | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cloud | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Cloud | case |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cloud | punct |
| 20 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Cloud | amod |
| 21 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lends | parataxis |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Cloud | case |
| 23 | Rest | Rest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cloud | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Rest | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Rest | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 Place | cc |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Place | punct |
| 28 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Rest | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Glow | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sunset | det |
| 31 | Sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Glow | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Sunset | case |
| 33 | Glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Place | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Cloud | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 lends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | present | wester | wester | to one euphonious variant in the pakeha and tongue; Red Cloud and Rest or Place of the Sunset's Glow parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | glow in a quote | the Sunset | nom glow «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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