Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 49
their nippled upswells, dreamy on sunny days in their delicate wash of hazy blue.
What happens: nipple
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 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 upswells | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nippled | nipple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 upswells | amod |
| 3 | upswells | upswell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dreamy | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamy | punct |
| 5 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dreamy | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wash | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wash | nmod:poss |
| 11 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wash | amod |
| 12 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 days | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blue | case |
| 14 | hazy | hazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blue | amod |
| 15 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wash | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreamy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nipple | participle | 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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