Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 102
They were called “O-Roto-Repo,” or more briefly, “O-Roto-re’,” which means “In the Swamp,” or the “Swamp-Dwellers.”
What happens: call, mean · To what, where: rivers, Swamp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Roto | punct |
| 5 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Roto | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Roto | punct |
| 7 | Roto | Roto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Repo | punct |
| 9 | Repo | Repo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Roto | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Roto | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Roto | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 Roto | conj |
| 14 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 re | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 re | punct |
| 17 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 21 re | discourse |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Roto | punct |
| 19 | Roto | Roto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 re | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Roto | punct |
| 21 | re | re | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | parataxis |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 re | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 means | nsubj |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Swamp | punct |
| 28 | In | in | ADP | _ | 30 Swamp | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Swamp | det |
| 30 | Swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Swamp | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Swamp | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 Dwellers | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Dwellers | det |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Dwellers | punct |
| 36 | Swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Dwellers | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Swamp | punct |
| 38 | Dwellers | dweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Swamp | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | rivers = river | O Roto xcomp; Roto re parataxis; briefly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the Swamp or the Swamp Dwellers | which nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swamp=Topic |
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.
Text: «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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