Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 16
And the lofty Sugarloaf peak immediately to the north of Dyer’s Pass, was Te Heru o Kahukura, which being interpreted, is “Kahukura’s Head-Comb.”
Who acts: lofty Sugarloaf peak, Te Heru · What happens: be, interpret · To what, where: Te Heru, Kahukura, Head Comb
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 (lofty Sugarloaf peak, Te Heru), 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 | _ | 17 Heru | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peak | det |
| 3 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 peak | amod |
| 4 | Sugarloaf | sugarloaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peak | compound |
| 5 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Heru | nsubj |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 north | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 north | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 north | det |
| 9 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peak | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Pass | case |
| 11 | Dyer | Dyer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pass | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Dyer | case |
| 13 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 north | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peak | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Heru | cop |
| 16 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Heru | compound |
| 17 | Heru | Heru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Comb | nsubj |
| 18 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 19 Kahukura | case |
| 19 | Kahukura | Kahukura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Heru | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 interpreted | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 interpreted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 interpreted | aux:pass |
| 23 | interpreted | interpret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Kahukura | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Heru | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Comb | cop |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Comb | punct |
| 27 | Kahukura | Kahukura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Kahukura | case |
| 29 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Comb | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Head | punct |
| 31 | Comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 Comb | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Comb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lofty Sugarloaf peak | Te Heru | of Kahukura | tree rules | |||
| 2 | interpret | gerund · passive | Kahukura | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Te Heru | Head Comb | tree rules |
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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