Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 113
And further out still, there is Tuawera, the Cave Rock at Sumner, to which belongs a legend of love and wizardry and revenge, to be narrated at another time, in which the chief figures were a girl from Akaroa named Hine-ao or “Daughter of the Dawn,” the chief Turaki-po, of “The Outpost” village, and Te Ake, the _tohunga_ of Akaroa.
Who acts: Tuawera, chief figures · What happens: be, belong, narrate, name · To what, where: legend, girl, Akaroa, Hine ao
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 (Tuawera, chief figures), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 is | cc |
| 2 | further | further | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 still | advmod |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 further | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 further | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 named | advcl |
| 8 | Tuawera | Tuawera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rock | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rock | det |
| 11 | Cave | Cave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rock | compound |
| 12 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tuawera | appos |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Sumner | case |
| 14 | Sumner | Sumner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rock | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 belongs | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 belongs | nsubj |
| 18 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 is | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 legend | det |
| 20 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 belongs | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 legend | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wizardry | cc |
| 24 | wizardry | wizardry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 legend | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 revenge | cc |
| 26 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 legend | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 narrated | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 narrated | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 narrated | aux:pass |
| 30 | narrated | narrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 belongs | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 narrated | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 girl | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 girl | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 figures | det |
| 38 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 figures | amod |
| 39 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 girl | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 girl | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 girl | det |
| 42 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 narrated | parataxis |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 Akaroa | case |
| 44 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 girl | nmod |
| 45 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 46 | Hine | Hine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 ao | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 ao | punct |
| 48 | ao | ao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 named | obj |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 Daughter | cc |
| 50 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Daughter | punct |
| 51 | Daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 ao | conj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Dawn | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Dawn | det |
| 54 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Daughter | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 po | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 61 po | punct |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 po | det |
| 58 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 po | amod |
| 59 | Turaki | Turaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 po | compound |
| 60 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 59 Turaki | punct |
| 61 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 ao | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 village | punct |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 68 village | case |
| 64 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 68 village | punct |
| 65 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 Outpost | det |
| 66 | Outpost | Outpost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 village | compound |
| 67 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 66 Outpost | punct |
| 68 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 ao | conj |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 79 Akaroa | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 79 Akaroa | cc |
| 71 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 79 Akaroa | nsubj |
| 72 | Ake | Ake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 Te | flat |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 76 tohunga | punct |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 76 tohunga | det |
| 75 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 tohunga | amod |
| 76 | tohunga | tohunga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 Te | appos |
| 77 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 79 Akaroa | punct |
| 78 | of | of | ADP | _ | 79 Akaroa | case |
| 79 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 named | obl |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Tuawera | there | still | further property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | belong | present | a legend of love and wizardry and revenge | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | narrate speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the chief figures | a girl | Akaroa | which obl | tree rules | ||
| 5 | name | past | Hine ao or Daughter of the Dawn and the chief Turaki po and Outpost village | of Akaroa Te | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ao=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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