Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 10
The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited.
Who acts: hongi, people · What happens: be, press, share, do, invite · To what, where: traditional Maori greeting, New Zealand, breath
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners» 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, people), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 greeting | amod |
| 7 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Zealand | case |
| 9 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Zealand | compound |
| 10 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 greeting | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 noses | punct |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 press | nsubj |
| 13 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noses | compound |
| 14 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 greeting | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 foreheads | cc |
| 16 | foreheads | forehead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 noses | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 share | mark |
| 18 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 noses | acl |
| 19 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 share | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 greeting | parataxis |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 invited | advmod |
| 23 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 done | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | 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 | press noses and foreheads obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | press | people | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | share | to-infinitive | the hongi not said here | breath | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | invite | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:296-greetings-goodbyes-and-table-manners.lesson:10.
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 ×2. 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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