Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 12
So when the Natives gave the term to the Castle Rock they were conferring upon it a name of high _tapu_ befitting its bold and commanding appearance.
Who acts: Natives · What happens: give, confer, befit, command, name · To what, where: term, Castle Rock, name, bold, appearance, high tapu · 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 (Natives), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gave | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Natives | det |
| 4 | Natives | Native | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 term | det |
| 7 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Rock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rock | det |
| 10 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rock | compound |
| 11 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 conferring | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 conferring | aux |
| 14 | conferring | confer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 conferring | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conferring | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tapu | case |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tapu | amod |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 high | punct |
| 22 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 name | nmod |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 befitting | punct |
| 24 | befitting | befit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 conferring | conj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bold | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 befitting | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 commanding | cc |
| 28 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 befitting | conj |
| 29 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 commanding | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Natives | the term | the Castle Rock | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent term=Theme to rock=Recipient | |||
| 2 | confer | past · progressive | Natives = native | a name of high tapu | upon term | tree rules | |||
| 3 | befit | gerund | Natives = native not said here | term's bold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | command | gerund | Natives = native not said here | appearance | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent appearance=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | name | high tapu | 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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