Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 8

Tama from New Zealand says his koro, Māori for grandfather, told him their tīpuna, the ancestors, sailed there by the stars: «chur», a Kiwi way to say cheers.

Who acts: Tama, koro, tīpuna, cheers · What happens: say, tell, sail · To what, where: Tama · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (Tama, koro, tīpuna, cheers), 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	Tama	Tama	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 Zealand	case
3	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Zealand	amod
4	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tama	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 koro	nmod:poss
7	koro	koro	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Māori	punct
9	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 koro	appos
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 grandfather	case
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Māori	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Māori	punct
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tīpuna	nmod:poss
16	tīpuna	tīpuna	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailed	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ancestors	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ancestors	det
19	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tīpuna	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sailed	punct
21	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	ccomp
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sailed	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 stars	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stars	det
25	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sailed	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 «	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 chur	punct
28	chur	chur	X	_	16 tīpuna	appos
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 chur	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 way	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 way	det
32	Kiwi	Kiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 way	compound
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chur	appos
34	to	to	PART	_	35 say	mark
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 way	acl
36	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 say	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tama from New Zealand				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	Tama's koro	Tama			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sail	past	people's tīpuna		there	by the stars	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	cheers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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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