Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 5

It grows two or three feet high, or sometimes higher, and it is so plentiful and so prone to spread that it has been placed on the Agricultural Department’s index expurgatorious as a noxious weed, in spite of all the sweet heathery perfume of its blossoms which the bees love.

Who acts: plant, prone, bees · What happens: grow, be, spread, place, love, spite · To what, where: high, plant, index, blossoms, sweet heathery perfume

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 (plant, prone, bees), 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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 feet	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 three	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 two	conj
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 high	obl:unmarked
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grows	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 higher	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 higher	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 higher	advmod
11	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plentiful	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 plentiful	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 plentiful	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 plentiful	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 plentiful	advmod
17	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grows	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spread	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 spread	advmod
20	prone	prone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spread	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 spread	mark
22	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 plentiful	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 placed	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 placed	nsubj:pass
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 placed	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 placed	aux:pass
27	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 spread	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	33 index	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Department	det
30	Agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Department	amod
31	Department	Department	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 index	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Department	case
33	index	index	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
34	expurgatorious	expurgatorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 index	amod
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 weed	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 weed	det
37	noxious	noxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 weed	amod
38	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 expurgatorious	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 spite	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 spite	case
41	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	47 perfume	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 perfume	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 perfume	det
45	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 perfume	amod
46	heathery	heathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 perfume	amod
47	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spite	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 blossoms	case
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 blossoms	nmod:poss
50	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 perfume	nmod
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 love	obj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 bees	det
53	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 love	nsubj
54	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 blossoms	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	plant	high two feet			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	plant			plentiful property	tree rules
3	spread	to-infinitive	prone				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	place	present · perfect · passive		plant	the Agricultural Department's index	in spite of all sweet heathery perfume of plant's blossoms	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on index=Destination
5	love	present	the bees	plant's blossoms			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
6	spite			all sweet heathery perfume of plant's blossoms			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	perfume			plant's blossoms			nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 5

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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 5