Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 2

The Summit Road has made city people free of the grandest hilltop pleasure place that any New Zealand city possesses within easy distance of its streets, and the worth of this mountain track, so easily accessible and commanding so noble a look-out over sea and plains and Alps, will increase in proportion to the growth of the Christchurch population.

Who acts: people, city, Zealand city, Christchurch population · What happens: make, people, possess, command, increase, grow · To what, where: Summit Road, look out, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, city, Zealand city, Christchurch population), 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	3 Road	det
2	Summit	Summit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Road	compound
3	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 people	nsubj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl:agent
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
11	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 place	amod
12	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 free	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 possesses	mark
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 city	det
17	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Zealand	flat
18	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 city	compound
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 possesses	nsubj
20	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 place	advcl
21	within	within	ADP	_	23 distance	case
22	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distance	amod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 possesses	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 streets	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 streets	nmod:poss
26	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 distance	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 worth	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 worth	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 worth	det
30	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 distance	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 track	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 track	det
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 track	compound
34	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 worth	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 accessible	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 accessible	advmod
37	easily	easily	ADV	_	38 accessible	advmod
38	accessible	accessible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 worth	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 commanding	cc
40	commanding	command	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 accessible	conj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 noble	advmod
42	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 commanding	xcomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 out	det
44	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 out	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 out	punct
46	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 commanding	obj
47	over	over	ADP	_	48 sea	case
48	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 out	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 plains	cc
50	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sea	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 Alps	cc
52	Alps	alp	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 plains	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 increase	punct
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 increase	aux
55	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 people	acl:relcl
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 proportion	case
57	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 increase	obl
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 growth	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 growth	det
60	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 increase	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	64 population	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 population	det
63	Christchurch	Christchurch	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 population	compound
64	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 growth	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive	people	the Summit Road			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2	people		city				tree rules
3	possess	present	any Zealand city			within easy distance of place's streets and the worth of this mountain track	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	command	gerund	any Zealand city not said here	a look out	sea and plains and Alps	noble property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent out=Theme over sea=Eventuality
5	increase	future	people not said here			to the growth of the Christchurch population result; in proportion	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient in proportion=Attribute to growth=Result
6	grow		the Christchurch population				nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent

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 2

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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 2