Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 110
Immeasurably more ancient is Rapanui, which is the name of Shag Rock, in the Estuary; a place-name that could very well be appropriated by some of the near-by residents.
Who acts: ancient Rapanui, some · What happens: be, appropriate · To what, where: ancient Rapanui, name, place name
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 (ancient Rapanui, some), 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 | Immeasurably | immeasurably | ADV | _ | 3 ancient | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 ancient | advmod |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rapanui | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rapanui | cop |
| 5 | Rapanui | Rapanui | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 name | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rapanui | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Rock | case |
| 12 | Shag | Shag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rock | compound |
| 13 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Estuary | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Estuary | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Estuary | det |
| 17 | Estuary | Estuary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rapanui | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 name | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rapanui | appos |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 appropriated | obj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 appropriated | aux |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 well | advmod |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 appropriated | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 appropriated | aux:pass |
| 28 | appropriated | appropriate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 name | acl:relcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 some | case |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 appropriated | obl:agent |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 residents | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 residents | det |
| 33 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 residents | amod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 residents | punct |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 residents | case |
| 36 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 some | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rapanui | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ancient Rapanui and the Estuary | the Estuary conj; a place name appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ancient Rapanui and the Estuary | the name | of Shag Rock | tree rules | |||
| 3 | appropriate | could · passive | some of the near residents | a place name | well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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