Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 12
The Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago and are famous for carving, tattooing, the haka and their navigation.
Who acts: Māori, haka · What happens: arrive, be, navigate · To what, where: Aotearoa
This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history 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 (Māori, haka), 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 Māori | det |
| 2 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Aotearoa | case |
| 5 | Aotearoa | Aotearoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Zealand | punct |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 5 Aotearoa | appos |
| 8 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 New | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Polynesia | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Polynesia | case |
| 11 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 700 | advmod |
| 13 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 famous | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 famous | cop |
| 18 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arrived | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 carving | case |
| 20 | carving | carve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 famous | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tattooing | punct |
| 22 | tattooing | tattoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carving | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 haka | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 haka | det |
| 25 | haka | haka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tattooing | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 navigation | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 navigation | nmod:poss |
| 28 | navigation | navigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 haka | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the Māori | Aotearoa | from Polynesia; ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from polynesia=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | the Māori not said here | for carving and tattooing; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | navigate | haka | nom navigation «act transitive»: poss=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:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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