Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 28
Here in the leaf-thatched hollows of Taungahara or the woven thickets that blanket the precipice fronts of the Seven Sleepers still shall you have intimate glimpses of wild nature.
Who acts: precipice fronts · What happens: thatch, weave, have, glimpse · To what, where: intimate glimpses, wild nature
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 (precipice fronts), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hollows | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hollows | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thatched | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaf | punct |
| 6 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hollows | amod |
| 7 | hollows | hollow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Taungahara | case |
| 9 | Taungahara | Taungahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hollows | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 thickets | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thickets | det |
| 12 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 thickets | amod |
| 13 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Taungahara | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 blanket | det |
| 15 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thickets | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fronts | det |
| 17 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fronts | compound |
| 18 | fronts | front | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Sleepers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sleepers | det |
| 21 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 Sleepers | nummod |
| 22 | Sleepers | Sleeper | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 fronts | nmod |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 27 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 glimpses | amod |
| 28 | glimpses | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 nature | case |
| 30 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nature | amod |
| 31 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 glimpses | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thatch | participle | leaf compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | shall | the precipice fronts of the Seven Sleepers | intimate glimpses of wild nature | still | you nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient | ||
| 5 | glimpse | wild nature | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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