Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 44
Behind the town of Akaroa, the grassy hills, lightly wooded here and there like a beautiful wild park, culminate in a craggy skyline, more than a thousand feet above the fields and orchards on the town outskirts.
Who acts: you · What happens: wood, culminate · To what, where: town
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 (you), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 culminate | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Akaroa | case |
| 5 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 town | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hills | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 8 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hills | amod |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Akaroa | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wooded | punct |
| 11 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 12 wooded | advmod |
| 12 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 town | acl |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 wooded | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 there | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 here | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 park | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 park | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 park | amod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 park | amod |
| 20 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wooded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 town | punct |
| 22 | culminate | culminate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 skyline | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 skyline | det |
| 25 | craggy | craggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 skyline | amod |
| 26 | skyline | skyline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 culminate | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 more | punct |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 skyline | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 feet | case |
| 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 | 28 more | obl |
| 33 | above | above | ADP | _ | 35 fields | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fields | det |
| 35 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feet | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 orchards | cc |
| 37 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feet | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 outskirts | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 outskirts | det |
| 40 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 outskirts | compound |
| 41 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 orchards | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 culminate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wood | participle | the town of Akaroa and the grassy hills not said here | here; there | like a beautiful wild park; lightly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | culminate | imperative | you not said here | the town of Akaroa and the grassy hills | in a craggy skyline | 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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