Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 34
There they were left, say the Maoris, _he kai mo te ra, mo te manu_--“food for the sun and for the birds.”
Who acts: you, warrior · What happens: leave, say, ra · To what, where: breakwaters, Maoris · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, warrior), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 left | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 say | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maoris | det |
| 8 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ra | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 ra | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ra | nsubj |
| 12 | kai | kai | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ra | nsubj |
| 13 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ra | compound |
| 14 | te | te | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ra | amod |
| 15 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Maoris | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mo | punct |
| 17 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ra | conj |
| 18 | te | te | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ra | appos |
| 19 | manu | manu | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 te | flat:foreign |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 food | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 food | punct |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | ccomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sun | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 food | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 birds | cc |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 birds | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 birds | det |
| 30 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 food | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | breakwaters = breakwater | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the Maoris | food for the sun and the birds ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maoris=Topic | |||
| 3 | ra | warrior | mo conj | 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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