Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 2
This is the Native name of Mount Pleasant, the great grassy upswell of land lifting sixteen hundred feet above sea-level and looking down serenely on the vast curving sand-line of Pegasus Bay.
Who acts: This, land, vast · What happens: be, upswell, lift, look down, curve · To what, where: Native name, hundred feet, sea level, sand line
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, land, vast), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 4 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Pleasant | case |
| 7 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pleasant | compound |
| 8 | Pleasant | Pleasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grassy | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grassy | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grassy | amod |
| 12 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pleasant | conj |
| 13 | upswell | upswell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 grassy | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 upswell | obl |
| 16 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 land | acl |
| 17 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hundred | compound |
| 18 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 feet | nummod |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lifting | obj |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 level | case |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 level | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sea | punct |
| 23 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifting | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looking | cc |
| 25 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lifting | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 looking | compound:prt |
| 27 | serenely | serenely | ADV | _ | 25 looking | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 vast | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 vast | det |
| 30 | vast | vast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looking | obl |
| 31 | curving | curve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 vast | acl |
| 32 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 line | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 sand | punct |
| 34 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 curving | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Bay | case |
| 36 | Pegasus | Pegasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Bay | compound |
| 37 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 line | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the Native name | of Mount Pleasant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | upswell | infinitive | This not said here | of land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lift | gerund | land not said here | hundred feet | sea level | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme above level=Destination | |||
| 4 | look down | gerund | land not said here | on the vast; serenely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on vast=Theme | ||||
| 5 | curve | gerund | the vast not said here | sand line of Pegasus Bay | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent line=Material |
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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