Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 27
Deep down in these twisting gullies below the straight cut harbour-facing cliffs, there lingers still a certain quality of primitiveness and a suggestion of the ancient adventure; an atmosphere still in keeping with the legendry of these Hills.
Who acts: atmosphere, ancient adventure · What happens: twist, face, keep, suggest
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 (atmosphere, ancient adventure), 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 | Deep | deep | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 gullies | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 gullies | det |
| 5 | twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 gullies | amod |
| 6 | gullies | gully | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 down | obl |
| 7 | below | below | ADP | _ | 14 cliffs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cliffs | det |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cliffs | amod |
| 10 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cliffs | amod |
| 11 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 facing | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 harbour | punct |
| 13 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 cliffs | amod |
| 14 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gullies | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 down | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 down | expl |
| 17 | lingers | linger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 there | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 quality | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 quality | det |
| 20 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 quality | amod |
| 21 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lingers | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 primitiveness | case |
| 23 | primitiveness | primitiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quality | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 suggestion | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 suggestion | det |
| 26 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quality | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 adventure | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 adventure | det |
| 29 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 adventure | amod |
| 30 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suggestion | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 atmosphere | punct |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 atmosphere | det |
| 33 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quality | conj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 keeping | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 keeping | mark |
| 36 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 atmosphere | acl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 legendry | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 legendry | det |
| 39 | legendry | legendry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 keeping | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Hills | case |
| 41 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 Hills | det |
| 42 | Hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 legendry | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 down | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | face | gerund | harbour compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | a atmosphere not said here | still | with the legendry of this Hills | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | suggest | the ancient adventure | nom suggestion «cognition 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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