Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 8
These stories, I hope, will invest with a new interest for many Canterbury _pakehas_ the scenic beauties of the Port Hills now opened up from end to end by the Summit Road.
Who acts: I, stories · What happens: hope, invest, open up · To what, where: stories, scenic beauties, end
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 (I, stories), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 invest | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stories | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stories | punct |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 invest | aux |
| 8 | invest | invest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 interest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 interest | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 interest | amod |
| 12 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invest | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Canterbury | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Canterbury | amod |
| 15 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 interest | nmod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 pakehas | punct |
| 17 | pakehas | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 opened | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 beauties | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beauties | det |
| 20 | scenic | scenic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beauties | amod |
| 21 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Port | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Port | det |
| 24 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 opened | obl |
| 25 | Hills | hill | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 opened | aux |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 opened | advmod |
| 27 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 invest | parataxis |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 opened | compound:prt |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 opened | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 opened | obl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 Road | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Road | det |
| 35 | Summit | Summit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Road | compound |
| 36 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 end | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 invest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | this stories not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invest | future | this stories | with a new interest for many Canterbury | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with interest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open up | present · passive | the scenic beauties | from end; to end by the Summit Road; now | of the Port; pakehas obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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