Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 52
It loved to build on lofty hills, where the soil was soft enough to enable it to make its burrows.
Who acts: muttonbird, soil · What happens: love, build, be, enable, make · To what, where: lofty hills, muttonbird, burrows
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 (muttonbird, soil), 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 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 build | mark |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 loved | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hills | amod |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 build | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 soft | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 soft | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soil | det |
| 11 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soft | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soft | cop |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hills | conj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 soft | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 enable | mark |
| 16 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 soft | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 enable | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enable | xcomp |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 burrows | nmod:poss |
| 21 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | muttonbird | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | muttonbird not said here | lofty hills | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on hill=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the soil | enough, soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enable | to-infinitive | the soil not said here | muttonbird | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | muttonbird not said here | muttonbird's burrows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burrow=Product |
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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