Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 30
“All the still-eyed Soul that broods In wide wind-whispering solitudes-- Each cloud chase chequering hill and plain-- Moon-shadows--sunny silences-- Lone mists on fire in glens profound-- Old half-lit trunks of twisted trees And stealthy gleams in gloomy woods.”
Who acts: eyed Soul, Lone · What happens: brood, whisper, chase, chequer, mist · To what, where: wide whispering solitudes, Moon shadows, hill, fire
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 (eyed Soul, Lone), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 chase | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Soul | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Soul | det |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 eyed | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 still | punct |
| 6 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Soul | amod |
| 7 | Soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chase | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 broods | nsubj |
| 9 | broods | brood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Soul | acl:relcl |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 solitudes | case |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 solitudes | amod |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whispering | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wind | punct |
| 14 | whispering | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 solitudes | amod |
| 15 | solitudes | solitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broods | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 cloud | punct |
| 17 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 cloud | det |
| 18 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Soul | conj |
| 19 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | chequering | chequer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 chase | xcomp |
| 21 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chequering | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 plain | cc |
| 23 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hill | conj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 shadows | punct |
| 25 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 shadows | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Moon | punct |
| 27 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chase | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 silences | punct |
| 29 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 silences | amod |
| 30 | silences | silence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shadows | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 mists | punct |
| 32 | Lone | Lone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 mists | nsubj |
| 33 | mists | mist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 chase | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 fire | case |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mists | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 profound | case |
| 37 | glens | glen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 profound | compound |
| 38 | profound | profound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mists | obl |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 trunks | punct |
| 40 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 trunks | amod |
| 41 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 43 lit | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 half | punct |
| 43 | lit | lit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 trunks | amod |
| 44 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 profound | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 trees | case |
| 46 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 trees | amod |
| 47 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 trunks | nmod |
| 48 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 gleams | cc |
| 49 | stealthy | stealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 gleams | amod |
| 50 | gleams | gleam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 trees | conj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 woods | case |
| 52 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 woods | amod |
| 53 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 mists | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 chase | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brood in a quote | present | all eyed Soul and each cloud | wide whispering solitudes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | gerund | wind compound | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chase in a quote | present | all eyed Soul and each cloud | Moon shadows and sunny silences | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | chequer in a quote | gerund | all eyed Soul and each cloud not said here | hill | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mist in a quote | present | Lone | fire | in glens profound; in gloomy woods | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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