Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 19
Indeed, that strange hollow in the hills might have made fit cradle for a Finn MacCoul.
What happens: make · To what, where: hills
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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 hollow | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 hollow | mark |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hollow | amod |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hollow | advcl |
| 12 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cradle | amod |
| 13 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 MacCoul | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 MacCoul | det |
| 16 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 MacCoul | compound |
| 17 | MacCoul | MacCoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cradle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hollow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | might · perfect · passive | the hills | fit cradle obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary cradle=Product for maccoul=Asset |
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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