Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks, sentence 1
The Port Hills and their geological history--The Dead Fire-Cones--“The Fire of Tamatea”--Bold Cliff and Mountain Scenery--Beauties of the Port Range 1
To what, where: Fire Cones
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hills | det |
| 2 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hills | compound |
| 3 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Cones | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 history | cc |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 history | nmod:poss |
| 6 | geological | geological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Hills | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cones | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cones | det |
| 10 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fire | compound |
| 11 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cones | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fire | punct |
| 13 | Cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fire | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fire | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fire | det |
| 17 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cones | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Tamatea | case |
| 19 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fire | nmod |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fire | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Cliff | punct |
| 22 | Bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Cliff | amod |
| 23 | Cliff | Cliff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cones | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Scenery | cc |
| 25 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Scenery | compound |
| 26 | Scenery | scenery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Cliff | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Beauties | punct |
| 28 | Beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Cones | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Port | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Port | det |
| 31 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Beauties | nmod |
| 32 | Range | Range | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Port | flat |
| 33 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Range | flat |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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