Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 31
One of these parties of the _tangata-whenua_, the people of the land, he met in battle on the rocky beach of Ohinehou where the white man’s breakwaters and wharves now stand.
Who acts: One, breakwaters · What happens: meet, stand · To what, where: battle
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 (One, breakwaters), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 met | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 parties | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 parties | det |
| 4 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 whenua | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whenua | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 whenua | punct |
| 8 | tangata | tangata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whenua | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tangata | punct |
| 10 | whenua | whenua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parties | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 whenua | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 battle | case |
| 22 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 beach | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beach | det |
| 25 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beach | amod |
| 26 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ohinehou | case |
| 28 | Ohinehou | Ohinehou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 beach | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 stand | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 breakwaters | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 man | case |
| 34 | breakwaters | breakwater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 stand | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wharves | cc |
| 36 | wharves | wharf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 breakwaters | conj |
| 37 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 stand | advmod |
| 38 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Ohinehou | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | One of this parties of the tangata whenua the people of the land | battle | on the rocky beach of Ohinehou; warrior nsubj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | present | the white man's breakwaters and wharves | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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