Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 103
They lived in a marshy region which had its compensations in the way of abundant food, for the swamps and creeks swarmed with eels and wild duck.
Who acts: rivers, marshy region, region · What happens: live, have, swarm, compensate · To what, where: marshy region, compensations, way, swamps
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: who acts (rivers, marshy region, region), 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 | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 region | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 5 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 region | amod |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 region | acl:relcl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 compensations | nmod:poss |
| 10 | compensations | compensation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 15 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 food | amod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 way | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swamps | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 swamps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 swamps | det |
| 20 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 creeks | cc |
| 22 | creeks | creek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swamps | conj |
| 23 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 swamps | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 eels | case |
| 25 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 swarmed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 duck | cc |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 duck | amod |
| 28 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eels | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | rivers = river | a marshy region | for the swamps and creeks | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in region=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a marshy region | region's compensations | the way of abundant food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compensation=Patient | |||
| 3 | swarm | participle | the swamps and creeks not said here | with eels and wild duck | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with eel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | compensate | region | nom compensation «possession 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.
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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