Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 14

The most perfect local example of an ancient crater perhaps is one that does not seem to have attracted much attention from scientific writers and lecturers, and this may be mentioned as a type of the remarkable places which build up the romantic ruggedness and savageness of our harbour-palisading hills.

Who acts: remarkable places · What happens: be, not seem, attract, mention, build up, palisade · To what, where: one, much attention, scientific writers, this, romantic ruggedness, perfect local example

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 (remarkable places), 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	5 example	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 perfect	advmod
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 example	amod
4	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 example	amod
5	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 crater	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crater	det
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crater	amod
9	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 example	nmod
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 crater	appos
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seem	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seem	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 seem	advmod
16	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 one	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 attracted	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 attracted	aux
19	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 seem	xcomp
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 attention	amod
21	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 attracted	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 writers	case
23	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 writers	amod
24	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 attracted	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lecturers	cc
26	lecturers	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 writers	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mentioned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mentioned	cc
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 mentioned	nsubj:pass
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 mentioned	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 mentioned	aux:pass
32	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 attracted	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 type	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 type	det
35	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mentioned	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 places	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 places	det
38	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 places	amod
39	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 type	nmod
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 build	nsubj
41	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 places	acl:relcl
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 build	compound:prt
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ruggedness	det
44	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ruggedness	amod
45	ruggedness	ruggedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 build	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 savageness	cc
47	savageness	savageness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ruggedness	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	53 hills	case
49	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 hills	nmod:poss
50	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 palisading	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 harbour	punct
52	palisading	palisade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 hills	amod
53	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 savageness	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 example	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		one		perhaps property	tree rules
2	not seem	present · do-support					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	attract	to-infinitive · perfect		much attention	scientific writers and lecturers		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
4	mention speech: other	may · passive		this		as a type of the remarkable places	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	build up	present	the remarkable places	the romantic ruggedness and savageness of our palisading hills			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer ruggedness=Patient
6	palisade	gerund				harbour compound	tree rules
8	exemplify			a ancient crater			nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	type			the remarkable places			nom type «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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 14