Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 40
The name has fittingly enough been given by Mr. Ell to the stone house for visitors which stands under the ribbonwood trees at the head of the Kennedy’s Bush Valley.
Who acts: Ell, visitors · What happens: give, stand · To what, where: name, stone house, ribbonwood trees
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 (Ell, visitors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 4 | fittingly | fittingly | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Ell | case |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ell | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Ell | Ell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | compound |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 visitors | case |
| 16 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stands | nsubj |
| 18 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 visitors | acl:relcl |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 21 | ribbonwood | ribbonwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trees | compound |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stands | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stands | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Valley | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Kennedy | det |
| 28 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Valley | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Kennedy | case |
| 30 | Bush | Bush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Valley | compound |
| 31 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | Ell Mr. | the name | the stone house for visitors | enough, fittingly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to house=Recipient | ||
| 2 | stand | present | visitors | the ribbonwood trees | at the head of the Kennedy's Bush Valley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
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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