Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 112

We find it on the map of the Pacific some thousands of miles away; it is one of the Native names of Easter Island, that strange relic of a drowned Polynesian land in Eastern Oceania.

Who acts: We, Estuary · What happens: find, be, drown, name · To what, where: Estuary, map, one, Easter Island

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 (We, Estuary), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 find	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 map	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 map	det
6	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Pacific	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Pacific	det
9	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 map	nmod
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 thousands	det
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 away	obl:unmarked
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 miles	case
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	6 map	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 find	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 names	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 names	det
21	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 names	amod
22	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Island	case
24	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Island	compound
25	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 names	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 relic	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 relic	mark
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 relic	amod
29	relic	relic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 land	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 land	det
32	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 land	amod
33	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 land	amod
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 relic	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Eastern	case
36	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 land	nmod
37	Oceania	Oceania	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Eastern	flat
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	We	Estuary	the map of the Pacific	strange relic of a drowned Polynesian land in Eastern parataxis	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is a	present	Estuary	one		of the Native names of Easter Island	tree rules
3	drown	participle					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	name			Easter Island			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 112