Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 1

With the opening of tracks along the bold range of heights between the Canterbury Plains and Lyttelton Harbour, and the acquisition of new reserves for the public, mainly through the efforts of one tireless worker, Mr. H. G. Ell, Christchurch residents are perhaps coming to a more lively sense of the value of the Port Hills as a place of genuine recreation.

Who acts: Christchurch residents, H. · What happens: come, hill, acquire, sense, value · To what, where: lively sense, new reserves, value, Port

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, 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: who acts (Christchurch residents, H.), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 opening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opening	det
3	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 Hills	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 tracks	case
5	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opening	nmod
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 range	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 range	det
8	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 range	amod
9	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tracks	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 heights	case
11	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 range	nmod
12	between	between	ADP	_	15 Plains	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Plains	det
14	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Plains	compound
15	Plains	Plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 heights	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Lyttelton	cc
17	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Plains	conj
18	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lyttelton	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 acquisition	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 acquisition	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 acquisition	det
22	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opening	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 reserves	case
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reserves	amod
25	reserves	reserve	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 acquisition	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 public	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 public	det
28	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reserves	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 efforts	punct
30	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	33 efforts	advmod
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 efforts	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 efforts	det
33	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reserves	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 worker	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 worker	nummod
36	tireless	tireless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 worker	amod
37	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 efforts	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 opening	punct
39	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 H.	nmod:desc
40	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Hills	nsubj
41	G.	G.	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 H.	flat
42	Ell	Ell	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 H.	flat
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 coming	punct
44	Christchurch	Christchurch	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 residents	compound
45	residents	resident	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 coming	nsubj
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 coming	aux
47	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	48 coming	advmod
48	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 Hills	csubj
49	to	to	ADP	_	53 sense	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 sense	det
51	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	52 lively	advmod
52	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 sense	amod
53	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 coming	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 value	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 value	det
56	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sense	nmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 Port	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Port	det
59	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 value	nmod
60	Hills	hill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
61	as	as	ADP	_	63 place	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 place	det
63	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 Hills	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 recreation	case
65	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 recreation	amod
66	recreation	recreation	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 place	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 Hills	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	Christchurch residents		a lively sense of the value of the Port	perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sense=Initial_Location
2	hill	present	H. Mr.			with the opening of tracks along the bold range of heights between the Canterbury Plains and Lyttelton and the acquisition of new reserves for the public and the efforts of one tireless worker; as a place of genuine recreation	tree rules
3	acquire			new reserves for the public and the efforts of one tireless worker			nom acquisition «act transitive»: of=patient
4	sense			the value of the Port			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	value			the Port			nom value «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, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 1

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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 1