Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 111
It is a far-travelled name, for it was brought by the first Maori immigrants from Hawaiki, just as our white settlers brought their Canterburys and Heathcotes and Avons with them.
Who acts: Estuary, first Maori immigrants, white settlers · What happens: travell, be, bring · To what, where: travelled name, Estuary, Canterburys
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 (Estuary, first Maori immigrants, white settlers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 4 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 travelled | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 far | punct |
| 6 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux:pass |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 name | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 immigrants | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 immigrants | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 immigrants | amod |
| 16 | Maori | maori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 immigrants | amod |
| 17 | immigrants | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | obl:agent |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Hawaiki | case |
| 19 | Hawaiki | Hawaiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 immigrants | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 brought | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 brought | mark |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 settlers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 settlers | amod |
| 25 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Canterburys | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Canterburys | Canterburys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Heathcotes | cc |
| 30 | Heathcotes | Heathcotes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Canterburys | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Avons | cc |
| 32 | Avons | Avons | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Canterburys | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Estuary | a travelled name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | the first Maori immigrants from Hawaiki | Estuary | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | our white settlers | names's Canterburys and Heathcotes and Avons | with names = name | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument canterburys=Destination |
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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