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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 9

The passage of untold ages has so little altered these fire-made ranges that build a picture-like ring about Lyttelton Harbour that their origin and history are plainly revealed to the climber and the Summit Road stroller; the story of the rocks can scarcely be mistaken.

Who acts: passage, little altered made ranges, untold ages · What happens: have, alter, make, build, reveal, mistake · To what, where: little altered made ranges, like ring, origin, climber, story

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 (passage, little altered made ranges, untold ages), 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

detnsubjcaseamodnmodadvmodamodamoddetcompoundpunctamodobjnsubjacl:relcldetcompoundpunctamodobjcasecompoundnmodmarknmod:possnsubjccconjaux:passadvmodadvclcasedetoblccdetcompoundcompoundconjpunctdetnsubj:passcasedetnmodauxadvmodaux:passconjpunctrootTheDETpassageNOUNofADPuntoldADJagesNOUNhasVERBsoADVlittleADJalteredVERBtheseDETfireNOUN-PUNCTmadeVERBrangesNOUNthatPRONbuildVERBaDETpictureNOUN-PUNCTlikeADJringNOUNaboutADPLytteltonPROPNHarbourNOUNthatSCONJtheirPRONoriginNOUNandCCONJhistoryNOUNareAUXplainlyADVrevealedVERBtoADPtheDETclimberNOUNandCCONJtheDETSummitPROPNRoadPROPNstrollerNOUN;PUNCTtheDETstoryNOUNofADPtheDETrocksNOUNcanAUXscarcelyADVbeAUXmistakenVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 passagedet
2passagepassageNOUNNumber=Sing6 hasnsubj
3ofofADP_5 agescase
4untolduntoldADJDegree=Pos5 agesamod
5agesageNOUNNumber=Plur2 passagenmod
6hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7sosoADV_8 littleadvmod
8littlelittleADJDegree=Pos14 rangesamod
9alteredalterVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 rangesamod
10thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem14 rangesdet
11firefireNOUNNumber=Sing13 madecompound
12--PUNCT_11 firepunct
13mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 rangesamod
14rangesrangeNOUNNumber=Plur6 hasobj
15thatthatPRONPronType=Rel16 buildnsubj
16buildbuildVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 rangesacl:relcl
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 ringdet
18picturepictureNOUNNumber=Sing20 likecompound
19--PUNCT_18 picturepunct
20likelikeADJDegree=Pos21 ringamod
21ringringNOUNNumber=Sing16 buildobj
22aboutaboutADP_24 Harbourcase
23LytteltonLytteltonPROPNNumber=Sing24 Harbourcompound
24HarbourharbourNOUNNumber=Sing21 ringnmod
25thatthatSCONJ_32 revealedmark
26theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 originnmod:poss
27originoriginNOUNNumber=Sing32 revealednsubj
28andandCCONJ_29 historycc
29historyhistoryNOUNNumber=Sing27 originconj
30arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 revealedaux:pass
31plainlyplainlyADV_32 revealedadvmod
32revealedrevealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 buildadvcl
33totoADP_35 climbercase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 climberdet
35climberclimberNOUNNumber=Sing32 revealedobl
36andandCCONJ_40 strollercc
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 strollerdet
38SummitSummitPROPNNumber=Sing39 Roadcompound
39RoadRoadPROPNNumber=Sing40 strollercompound
40strollerstrollerNOUNNumber=Sing35 climberconj
41;;PUNCT_50 mistakenpunct
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 storydet
43storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing50 mistakennsubj:pass
44ofofADP_46 rockscase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 rocksdet
46rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur43 storynmod
47cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin50 mistakenaux
48scarcelyscarcelyADV_50 mistakenadvmod
49bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf50 mistakenaux:pass
50mistakenmistakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 hasconj
51..PUNCT_6 haspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentthe passage of untold agesthis little altered made rangesvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=Patient
2alterparticiplevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3makeparticiplefire compoundvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4buildpresentthis little altered made rangesa like ringabout Lyttelton Harbourvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product
5revealpresent · passiveages's origin and historythe climber and the Road strollerplainly propertyvn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to climber=Recipient
6mistakecan · passivethe story of the rocksscarcely propertytree rules
7passuntold agesnom passage «act 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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