Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 5
The rich purple of distance painted the most remote of the Peninsula peaks, and here and there a wispy tail of mist floated about the head of a gully that cleft the crumpled hills swelling up into the rocky summits of the Pohue and the Ahu-patiki.
Who acts: rich purple, remote, that, crumpled hills · What happens: paint, peak, float, cleft, crumple, swell up · To what, where: mist, rocky summits
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 (rich purple, remote, that, crumpled hills), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 purple | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purple | amod |
| 3 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 distance | case |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purple | nmod |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 remote | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 remote | advmod |
| 9 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peaks | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Peninsula | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Peninsula | det |
| 12 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 remote | nmod |
| 13 | peaks | peak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 painted | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 here | cc |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 painted | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 here | expl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tail | det |
| 20 | wispy | wispy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tail | amod |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 there | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mist | case |
| 23 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tail | nmod |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 mist | acl |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 head | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floated | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gully | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 gully | det |
| 30 | gully | gully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 cleft | nsubj |
| 32 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gully | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hills | det |
| 34 | crumpled | crumple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 hills | amod |
| 35 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 cleft | appos |
| 36 | swelling | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 hills | acl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 swelling | compound:prt |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 summits | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 summits | det |
| 40 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 summits | amod |
| 41 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 swelling | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Pohue | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Pohue | det |
| 44 | Pohue | Pohue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 summits | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 patiki | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 patiki | det |
| 47 | Ahu | Ahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 patiki | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 Ahu | punct |
| 49 | patiki | patiki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Pohue | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | the rich purple of distance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | peak | present | the remote of the Peninsula | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | float | participle | mist not said here | about the head of a gully and cleft | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about head=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | cleft | that | the crumpled hills appos | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | crumple | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | swell up | gerund | the crumpled hills not said here | the rocky summits of the Pohue and the Ahu patiki | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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