Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 45
Dark tors of rhyolite, grassed to the base of
What happens: grass · To what, where: Dark tors
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: 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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tors | amod |
| 2 | tors | tor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rhyolite | case |
| 4 | rhyolite | rhyolite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tors | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grassed | punct |
| 6 | grassed | grass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tors | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 base | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 base | det |
| 9 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grassed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 base | case |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grass | participle | Dark tors of rhyolite not said here | to the base | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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