Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 4
With all the alterations which man’s hand may make in the reserves and along the public tracks, however, the monumental rock-beauty will remain the great and peculiar feature of the hills, their most wonderful and unalterable glory.
Who acts: hand, monumental rock beauty · What happens: make, remain, feature · To what, where: reserves, great feature, hills
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 (hand, monumental rock beauty), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 alterations | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 alterations | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 alterations | det |
| 4 | alterations | alteration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obl |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 reserves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reserves | det |
| 13 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tracks | cc |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 tracks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tracks | det |
| 17 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tracks | amod |
| 18 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reserves | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remain | punct |
| 20 | however | however | ADV | _ | 28 remain | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 however | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beauty | det |
| 23 | monumental | monumental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beauty | amod |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beauty | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 rock | punct |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remain | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 remain | aux |
| 28 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 feature | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feature | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 peculiar | cc |
| 32 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 great | conj |
| 33 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remain | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hills | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hills | det |
| 36 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 feature | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wonderful | punct |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wonderful | nmod:poss |
| 39 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 40 wonderful | advmod |
| 40 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 glory | cc |
| 42 | unalterable | unalterable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 glory | amod |
| 43 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wonderful | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | may | which man's hand | the reserves and the public tracks | with all alterations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 2 | remain | future | the monumental rock beauty | the great feature of the hills | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | feature | the hills | nom feature «cognition 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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