Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 13
The most wonderful example of this stratified formation is the face of the south head of Akaroa Harbour; but it is possible to study similar pages in the volcanic chapter of Canterbury’s history without going many yards from the Summit Road anywhere from the sea to the hills above the harbour head.
Who acts: wonderful example, it · What happens: stratify, be, study, go, exemplify · To what, where: face, similar pages, volcanic chapter, many yards, Summit Road, stratified formation
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 (wonderful example, it), 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 | 4 example | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 wonderful | advmod |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 example | amod |
| 4 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 formation | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 formation | det |
| 7 | stratified | stratify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 formation | amod |
| 8 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 example | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 face | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 14 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Akaroa | case |
| 17 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 18 | Harbour | Harbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Akaroa | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 possible | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 possible | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 possible | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 possible | cop |
| 23 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 study | mark |
| 25 | study | study | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 possible | csubj |
| 26 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pages | amod |
| 27 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 study | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 chapter | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chapter | det |
| 30 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 chapter | amod |
| 31 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 study | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 history | case |
| 33 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 history | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Canterbury | case |
| 35 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chapter | nmod |
| 36 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 37 going | mark |
| 37 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 study | advcl |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 yards | amod |
| 39 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 going | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 Road | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Road | det |
| 42 | Summit | Summit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Road | compound |
| 43 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 yards | nmod |
| 44 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 sea | advmod |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 sea | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 sea | det |
| 47 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 going | obl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 hills | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 hills | det |
| 50 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 going | obl |
| 51 | above | above | ADP | _ | 54 head | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 head | det |
| 53 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 head | compound |
| 54 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 hills | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stratify | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the wonderful example of this stratified formation | the face | of the south head of Akaroa | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | study | to-infinitive | similar pages | the volcanic chapter of Canterbury's history | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go | gerund | many yards | the Summit Road | from the sea; to the hills above the harbour head | tree rules | |||
| 6 | exemplify | this stratified formation | nom example «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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