Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 17

So the olden folk occasionally displayed a fine taste in names; and although some of those names may be a trifle long for _pakeha_ use it would be well to save them from oblivion.

Who acts: olden folk, some, _ pakeha _ · What happens: display, be, use, save · To what, where: fine taste, names, trifle, taste, _, oblivion

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 (olden folk, some, _ pakeha _), 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	_	6 displayed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 folk	det
3	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 folk	amod
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 displayed	nsubj
5	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	6 displayed	advmod
6	displayed	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 taste	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 taste	amod
9	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 displayed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 names	case
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 displayed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 trifle	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 trifle	cc
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	22 trifle	mark
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 trifle	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 names	case
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 names	det
18	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 some	nmod
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 trifle	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 trifle	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 trifle	det
22	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	obl
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 trifle	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 _	case
25	_	_	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 _	nummod
26	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 _	compound
27	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 use	nsubj
28	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 displayed	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 use	obj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 well	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 well	cop
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 use	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 save	mark
34	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 use	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 save	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 oblivion	case
37	oblivion	oblivion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 save	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 displayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	display	past	the olden folk	a fine taste	names	occasionally property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Theme
2	is a	may	some of that names	a trifle		long property	tree rules
3	use	present	_ pakeha _	taste			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	would				well property	tree rules
5	save	to-infinitive	_ pakeha _ not said here	_	oblivion		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from oblivion=Source

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 17