Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 35
“_O_” signifies “the place of,” “_kete_” basket and “_upoko_” head, and thus was the place named, to memorise the tattooed brown conqueror of old and the ancient people whom he dispossessed on the shores of the Whangaraupo.
Who acts: warrior · What happens: signify, be, name, memorise, tattoo, dispossess · To what, where: place, tattooed brown conqueror, old ancient people, shores
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 signifies | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 O | punct |
| 3 | O | o | X | _ | 6 signifies | compound |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 O | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 O | punct |
| 6 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signifies | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 basket | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 kete | punct |
| 15 | kete | kete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 basket | compound |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 kete | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kete | punct |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 upoko | cc |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 upoko | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 upoko | punct |
| 22 | upoko | upoko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 basket | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 signifies | punct |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signifies | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 named | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 named | cc |
| 28 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 31 place | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 place | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 named | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 signifies | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 memorise | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 memorise | mark |
| 35 | memorise | memorise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 named | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 conqueror | det |
| 37 | tattooed | tattoo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 conqueror | amod |
| 38 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 conqueror | amod |
| 39 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 memorise | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 people | case |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 people | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 people | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 people | det |
| 44 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 people | amod |
| 45 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 conqueror | nmod |
| 46 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 dispossessed | obj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 dispossessed | nsubj |
| 48 | dispossessed | dispossess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 people | acl:relcl |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 shores | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 shores | det |
| 51 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 dispossessed | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Whangaraupo | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Whangaraupo | det |
| 54 | Whangaraupo | Whangaraupo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 shores | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 signifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | the place of kete basket and upoko | head obl:unmarked | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the place | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | memorise | to-infinitive | the tattooed brown conqueror of the old ancient people | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tattoo | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | dispossess | past | warrior | the old ancient people | the shores of the Whangaraupo | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Source |
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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