Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 29
A sufficiently grim name this, remindful of the Whanga-raupo’s red and cannibal past, for the heads were human ones.
What happens: be · To what, where: human ones
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 2 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 3 grim | advmod |
| 3 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 name | amod |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 remindful | det |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remindful | punct |
| 7 | remindful | remindful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 raupo | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 raupo | det |
| 10 | Whanga | Whanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 raupo | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Whanga | punct |
| 12 | raupo | raupo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remindful | nmod |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ’s | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cannibal | cc |
| 16 | cannibal | cannibal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 red | conj |
| 17 | past | past | ADV | _ | 14 red | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ones | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 heads | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heads | det |
| 21 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ones | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ones | cop |
| 23 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 red | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | human ones | for the heads | 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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