Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 5

The Port Range and the Banks Peninsula system of mountains are indeed the most remarkable heights in the whole of the South Island, not excepting the snowy Alps; there is nothing like them outside the northern volcanic regions, and in some aspects they carry a greater scientific and scenic value than even the crater-cones around the city of Auckland.

Who acts: Port Range, remarkable heights, nothing, Alps · What happens: be, not except, carry · To what, where: remarkable heights, whole South Island, snowy Alps, greater scientific value, aspects

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 (Port Range, remarkable heights, nothing, Alps), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Range	det
2	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Range	compound
3	Range	Range	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heights	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 system	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 system	det
6	Banks	Banks	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Peninsula	compound
7	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 system	compound
8	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Range	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 mountains	case
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 system	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heights	cop
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 heights	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heights	det
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 remarkable	advmod
15	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heights	amod
16	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	23 Island	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Island	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Island	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 Island	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Island	det
22	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Island	compound
23	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heights	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 excepting	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 excepting	advmod
26	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 heights	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Alps	det
28	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Alps	amod
29	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 excepting	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 is	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 is	expl
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heights	conj
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 is	nsubj
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 nothing	nmod
36	outside	outside	ADP	_	40 regions	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 regions	det
38	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 regions	amod
39	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 regions	amod
40	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 nothing	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 carry	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 carry	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 aspects	case
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 aspects	det
45	aspects	aspect	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 carry	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 carry	nsubj
47	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 is	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 value	det
49	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 value	amod
50	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 value	amod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 scenic	cc
52	scenic	scenic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 scientific	conj
53	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carry	obj
54	than	than	ADP	_	59 cones	case
55	even	even	ADV	_	59 cones	advmod
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 cones	det
57	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 cones	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 crater	punct
59	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 value	nmod
60	around	around	ADP	_	62 city	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 city	det
62	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 cones	nmod
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 Auckland	case
64	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 city	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 heights	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Port Range and the Peninsula system of mountains	the remarkable heights	the whole South Island	indeed property	tree rules
2	not except	gerund	the remarkable heights not said here	the snowy Alps			tree rules
3	be	present	nothing like Alps outside the northern volcanic regions		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	present	Alps = alp	a greater scientific value	some aspects	than the crater cones around the city of Auckland	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent value=Value in aspect=Location

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 5