Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 10
Geologists from the days of von Haast have written much of the Lyttelton and Akaroa volcanic systems, and in truth it is an ever-new and ever-fascinating subject.
Who acts: story · What happens: write, be · To what, where: Geologists, new subject, truth
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 (story), 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 | Geologists | geologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Geologists | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Haast | case |
| 6 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 7 Haast | compound |
| 7 | Haast | Haast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | nmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 written | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 systems | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 systems | det |
| 13 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 systems | compound |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Akaroa | cc |
| 15 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lyttelton | conj |
| 16 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 systems | amod |
| 17 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 much | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 subject | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 subject | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 truth | case |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 subject | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 subject | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 subject | cop |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 subject | det |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 new | advmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ever | punct |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 subject | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fascinating | cc |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 fascinating | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ever | punct |
| 31 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 new | conj |
| 32 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 written | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · perfect · passive | Geologists from the days of von Haast | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | story | a new subject | truth | ever; ever | tree rules |
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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