Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 61
Distance, aided by imagination, no doubt lent it additional enchantment.
Who acts: Distance · What happens: aid, lend · To what, where: Distance, doubt
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 (Distance), 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 | Distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lent | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 aided | punct |
| 3 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Distance | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 imagination | case |
| 5 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aided | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lent | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 doubt | det |
| 8 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lent | nsubj |
| 9 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lent | obj |
| 11 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 enchantment | amod |
| 12 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lent | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | participle | Distance not said here | by imagination | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lend | past | Distance | doubt | additional enchantment obj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient enchantment=Theme |
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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