Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 24
Mount Pleasant, where a Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ once stood, was known to the Maoris as Tauhinu-Korokio, a combination of two names of shrubs common to the ranges.
Who acts: Ngati Mamoe · What happens: stand, know, name · To what, where: Mount Pleasant, shrubs
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 (Ngati Mamoe), 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 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pleasant | compound |
| 2 | Pleasant | Pleasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Mamoe | det |
| 6 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mamoe | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ngati | punct |
| 8 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 pa | punct |
| 10 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mamoe | appos |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 stood | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pleasant | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pleasant | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Maoris | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Maoris | det |
| 19 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Tauhinu | case |
| 21 | Tauhinu | Tauhinu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Maoris | nmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Korokio | punct |
| 23 | Korokio | Korokio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Maoris | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 combination | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 combination | det |
| 26 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Maoris | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 names | case |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 names | nummod |
| 29 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 combination | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 shrubs | case |
| 31 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 names | nmod |
| 32 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shrubs | amod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 ranges | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ranges | det |
| 35 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 common | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a Ngati Mamoe | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | Mount Pleasant | to the Maoris as Tauhinu and Korokio | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | name | shrubs | 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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