Greetings, goodbyes, please and thank you, and table manners, sentence 5

In New Zealand, the Maori hongi, pressing noses and foreheads, means sharing breath; it is done when you are invited to.

Who acts: Maori hongi · What happens: press, mean, share, do, invite · To what, where: noses, New Zealand, breath, you

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 (Maori 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Zealand	case
2	New	New	PROPN	_	3 Zealand	amod
3	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 means	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Zealand	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hongi	det
6	Maori	Maori	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hongi	compound
7	hongi	hongi	X	Foreign=Yes	14 means	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pressing	punct
9	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hongi	advcl
10	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pressing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 foreheads	cc
12	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 noses	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Zealand	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 means	xcomp
16	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sharing	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 means	parataxis
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 invited	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 invited	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 invited	aux:pass
24	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 done	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	24 invited	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	press	gerund	the Maori hongi not said here	noses and foreheads		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
2	mean	present	the Maori hongi		New Zealand	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	share not said to happen	gerund	the Maori hongi not said here	breath		tree rules
4	do	present · passive		breath		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	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.

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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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