Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 15
It is to be studied especially well from the Lyttelton-Governor’s Bay road.
What happens: study · To what, where: example, Bay road
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 studied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 studied | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 studied | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 studied | aux:pass |
| 5 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 studied | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Governor | det |
| 10 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Governor | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lyttelton | punct |
| 12 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 road | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Governor | case |
| 14 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 road | compound |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | present · passive | example | the Lyttelton Governor's Bay road | well property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from road=Source |
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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