Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 107

Lower down the Heathcote, where the broad tidal shallows are, the Maoris gave the place an equally appropriate name; they called it O-hikaparuparu, which may be translated as “The spot where So-and-so fell in the mud,” or “Stick-in-the-mud,” which serves equally well to-day.

Who acts: broad tidal shallows, Maoris, names, spot · What happens: be, give, call, translate, fall · To what, where: place, Heathcote, serves, mud · 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: who acts (broad tidal shallows, Maoris, names, spot), 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	Lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 gave	advmod
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 Heathcote	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Heathcote	det
4	Heathcote	Heathcote	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 are	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 are	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shallows	det
8	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shallows	amod
9	tidal	tidal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shallows	amod
10	shallows	shallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Lower	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lower	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Maoris	det
14	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 name	det
19	equally	equally	ADV	_	20 appropriate	advmod
20	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 name	amod
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	nsubj
24	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gave	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obj
26	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	28 hikaparuparu	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 hikaparuparu	punct
28	hikaparuparu	hikaparuparu	X	Foreign=Yes	24 called	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 translated	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 translated	nsubj:pass
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 translated	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 translated	aux:pass
33	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hikaparuparu	acl
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 spot	case
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 spot	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spot	det
37	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 translated	obl:agent
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 fell	advmod
39	So	so	ADV	_	44 fell	advmod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 fell	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 fell	cc
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 and	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 fell	advmod
44	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 spot	advcl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 mud	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 mud	det
47	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fell	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 mud	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	47 mud	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 mud	cc
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	58 mud	punct
52	Stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 mud	nsubj
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 mud	punct
54	in	in	ADP	_	58 mud	case
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 in	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 mud	det
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 the	punct
58	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mud	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 mud	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	58 mud	punct
61	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	62 serves	det
62	serves	serve	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 fell	obj
63	equally	equally	ADV	_	67 day	advmod
64	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	67 day	advmod
65	to	to	ADP	_	67 day	case
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 to	punct
67	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 serves	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	the broad tidal shallows				down the Heathcote	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	the Maoris	the place			a appropriate name obj; low property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent place=Recipient name=Theme
3	call speech: assert	past	names = name	Heathcote				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	translate	may · passive	the spot				which nsubj:pass	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	fall in a quote	past	the spot not said here	which serves	the mud or the mud Stick	to day		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient serve=Result

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 107