Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 42
Led by the scouts--the _torotoro_--the invaders rushed upon the Ngati-Mamoe some of whom they killed.
Who acts: invaders · What happens: lead, rush, kill · To what, where: Ngati Mamoe
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 (invaders), 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 | Led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 scouts | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scouts | det |
| 4 | scouts | scout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Led | obl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 torotoro | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 torotoro | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 torotoro | punct |
| 8 | torotoro | torotoro | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 scouts | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 torotoro | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 rushed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 invaders | det |
| 12 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rushed | nsubj |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 torotoro | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 Mamoe | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mamoe | det |
| 16 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mamoe | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ngati | punct |
| 18 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 Mamoe | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 some | nmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 whom | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | by the scouts | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by scout=Destination | |||||
| 2 | rush | past | the invaders | the Ngati Mamoe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon mamoe=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | invaders = invader | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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