Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 69
pathway, through the Devil’s Staircase, or The Remarkable Dykes (on the way to Kaituna)]
To what, where: pathway
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 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Staircase | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 Staircase | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Devil | det |
| 5 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Staircase | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Devil | case |
| 7 | Staircase | Staircase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 pathway | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Dykes | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Dykes | cc |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dykes | det |
| 11 | Remarkable | Remarkable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Dykes | compound |
| 12 | Dykes | dyke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 pathway | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Dykes | appos |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Kaituna | case |
| 18 | Kaituna | Kaituna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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