Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 7
The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand, done when you are invited.
Who acts: hongi · What happens: be, do, invite · To what, where: traditional Maori greeting, New Zealand, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hongi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hongi | det |
| 2 | hongi | hongi | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 greeting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 greeting | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 greeting | det |
| 5 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 greeting | amod |
| 6 | Maori | maori | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greeting | compound |
| 7 | greeting | greet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Zealand | case |
| 9 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 10 Zealand | flat |
| 10 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 greeting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Maori | punct |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 greeting | acl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 invited | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 invited | aux:pass |
| 16 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 done | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hongi | a traditional Maori greeting | New Zealand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | participle | a traditional Maori greeting not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | invite | present · passive | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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.
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The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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