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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 12

And maybe if Mr. Ell’s name were bestowed, like Tamatea’s of old, upon one of these monumental crags still unchristened, it would but fittingly preserve the memory of a man whose title to such local honour and fame is certainly greater than that of some of his forerunners whose names the landscape bears.

Who acts: title, Ell, forerunners · What happens: bestow, unchristen, preserve, be, name · To what, where: name, monumental crags, memory

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (title, Ell, forerunners), 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

ccadvmodmarknmod:descnmod:posscasensubj:passaux:passpunctcaseoblcasecasenmodpunctcaseparataxiscasedetamodnmodadvmodaclpunctnsubjadvclccadvmodconjdetobjcasedetoblnmod:possnsubjcaseamodamodnmodccconjcopadvmodacl:relclcaseoblcasenmodcasenmod:possnmodnmod:possnmoddetcompoundconjpunctrootAndCCONJmaybeADVifSCONJMr.PROPNEllPROPN’sPARTnameNOUNwereAUXbestowedVERB,PUNCTlikeADPTamateaPROPN’sPARTofADPoldADJ,PUNCTuponADPoneNUMofADPtheseDETmonumentalADJcragsNOUNstillADVunchristenedVERB,PUNCTitPRONwouldAUXbutCCONJfittinglyADVpreserveVERBtheDETmemoryNOUNofADPaDETmanNOUNwhosePRONtitleNOUNtoADPsuchADJlocalADJhonourNOUNandCCONJfameNOUNisAUXcertainlyADVgreaterADJthanADPthatPRONofADPsomeDETofADPhisPRONforerunnersNOUNwhosePRONnamesNOUNtheDETlandscapeNOUNbearsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_9 bestowedcc
2maybemaybeADV_9 bestowedadvmod
3ififSCONJ_9 bestowedmark
4Mr.Mr.PROPNNumber=Sing5 Ellnmod:desc
5EllEllPROPNNumber=Sing7 namenmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 Ellcase
7namenameNOUNNumber=Sing9 bestowednsubj:pass
8werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 bestowedaux:pass
9bestowedbestowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10,,PUNCT_12 Tamateapunct
11likelikeADP_12 Tamateacase
12TamateaTamateaPROPNNumber=Sing9 bestowedobl
13’s'sPART_12 Tamateacase
14ofofADP_15 oldcase
15oldoldADJDegree=Pos12 Tamateanmod
16,,PUNCT_18 onepunct
17uponuponADP_18 onecase
18oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 bestowedparataxis
19ofofADP_22 cragscase
20thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem22 cragsdet
21monumentalmonumentalADJDegree=Pos22 cragsamod
22cragscragNOUNNumber=Plur18 onenmod
23stillstillADV_24 unchristenedadvmod
24unchristenedunchristenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 cragsacl
25,,PUNCT_27 wouldpunct
26ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 wouldnsubj
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin9 bestowedadvcl
28butbutCCONJ_30 preservecc
29fittinglyfittinglyADV_30 preserveadvmod
30preservepreserveVERBVerbForm=Inf9 bestowedconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 memorydet
32memorymemoryNOUNNumber=Sing30 preserveobj
33ofofADP_35 mancase
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 mandet
35manmanNOUNNumber=Sing46 greaterobl
36whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel37 titlenmod:poss
37titletitleNOUNNumber=Sing46 greaternsubj
38totoADP_41 honourcase
39suchsuchADJDegree=Pos41 honouramod
40locallocalADJDegree=Pos41 honouramod
41honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing37 titlenmod
42andandCCONJ_43 famecc
43famefameNOUNNumber=Sing41 honourconj
44isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin46 greatercop
45certainlycertainlyADV_46 greateradvmod
46greatergreatADJDegree=Cmp32 memoryacl:relcl
47thanthanADP_48 thatcase
48thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem46 greaterobl
49ofofADP_50 somecase
50somesomeDETPronType=Ind48 thatnmod
51ofofADP_53 forerunnerscase
52hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs53 forerunnersnmod:poss
53forerunnersforerunnerNOUNNumber=Plur50 somenmod
54whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel55 namesnmod:poss
55namesnameNOUNNumber=Plur53 forerunnersnmod
56thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art58 bearsdet
57landscapelandscapeNOUNNumber=Sing58 bearscompound
58bearsbearNOUNNumber=Plur55 namesconj
59..PUNCT_9 bestowedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bestowpast · passiveEll Mr.'s namelike Tamatea of old; one of this monumental crags parataxis; maybe propertytree rules
2unchristenparticiplethis monumental crags not said herestilltree rules
3preserveinfinitivethe memoryfittingly propertyvn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary
4ispresenttitle to such local honour and fameof a man; than the memory; certainly, great propertytree rules
5nameEll Mr.nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6nameMr.'s forerunners Mr.'s forerunners names and the landscape bears's names and the landscape bearsnom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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