Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 26

pictures about them; dry in summer, they come down in tumultuous little cataracts in time of heavy rain, plunging over the piled fragments of lava rocks, and filling for a day or two the age-worn pockets and pools and “pot-holes” in the winding valleys all arched over with the close-growing light timber.

Who acts: pictures · What happens: come down, plunge, pile, fill, wear, arch over · To what, where: tumultuous little cataracts, piled fragments, worn pockets, winding valleys

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 (pictures), 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	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dry	nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pictures	nmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 summer	case
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	parataxis
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 cataracts	case
13	tumultuous	tumultuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cataracts	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cataracts	amod
15	cataracts	cataract	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cataracts	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 rain	case
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rain	amod
20	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plunging	punct
22	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 come	advcl
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 fragments	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fragments	det
25	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fragments	amod
26	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plunging	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 rocks	case
28	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rocks	compound
29	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fragments	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 filling	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 filling	cc
32	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 plunging	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 filling	obl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 two	cc
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 day	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 pockets	det
39	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 worn	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 age	punct
41	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 pockets	amod
42	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 filling	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 pools	cc
44	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pockets	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 holes	cc
46	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 holes	punct
47	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 holes	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 pot	punct
49	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pockets	conj
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	49 holes	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 valleys	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 valleys	det
53	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 valleys	compound
54	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 filling	obl
55	all	all	ADV	_	56 arched	advmod
56	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 valleys	acl
57	over	over	ADV	_	56 arched	advmod
58	with	with	ADP	_	64 timber	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 timber	det
60	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 growing	amod
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 close	punct
62	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 timber	amod
63	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 timber	compound
64	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 arched	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	present	pictures = picture		tumultuous little cataracts in time of heavy rain		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cataract=Location
2	plunge	gerund	pictures = picture not said here		the piled fragments of lava rocks			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over fragment=Initial_Location
3	pile	participle						vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	fill	gerund	pictures = picture not said here	the worn pockets and pools and pot holes	the winding valleys	day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient
5	wear	participle				age		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	arch over	participle		the winding valleys not said here			with the growing light timber; all, over property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	grow	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 26