Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 20
Otokitoki--“The Place of Axes”--is the name of Godley Head, the lofty cliff upon which the lighthouse stands; its early-days _pakeha_ name was Cachalot Head.
Who acts: Otokitoki, lighthouse, early days · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: name, lofty cliff, Cachalot Head
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 (Otokitoki, lighthouse, early days), 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 | Otokitoki | Otokitoki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 Place | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Place | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Place | det |
| 5 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Otokitoki | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Axes | case |
| 7 | Axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Place | nmod |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Place | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Otokitoki | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 name | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Godley | case |
| 14 | Godley | Godley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nmod |
| 15 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Godley | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cliff | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cliff | det |
| 18 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cliff | amod |
| 19 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Godley | appos |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 stands | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lighthouse | det |
| 23 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stands | nsubj |
| 24 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cliff | parataxis |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 days | punct |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 days | nmod:poss |
| 27 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 days | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 early | punct |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Head | nsubj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 pakeha | punct |
| 31 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 days | conj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 days | appos |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 Head | cop |
| 35 | Cachalot | Cachalot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Head | compound |
| 36 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Otokitoki | the name | of Godley | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | present | the lighthouse | the lofty cliff | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon which=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | lighthouse's early days and pakeha | Cachalot Head | 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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