Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 9
stay for visitors, just below a remnant of the ancient bush on the northern and sunny slope of the green mountain.
Who acts: you · What happens: stay · To what, where: remnant
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 (you), 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 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 visitors | case |
| 3 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 stay | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remnant | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 remnant | advmod |
| 6 | below | below | ADP | _ | 8 remnant | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 remnant | det |
| 8 | remnant | remnant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 stay | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bush | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bush | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bush | amod |
| 12 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remnant | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 slope | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 slope | det |
| 15 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slope | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sunny | cc |
| 17 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 northern | conj |
| 18 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bush | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mountain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountain | det |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mountain | amod |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slope | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | a remnant of the ancient bush on the northern slope of the green mountain | for visitors | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below remnant=Location |
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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