Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 45
The Manuka village, although a strong defensive position, was stormed and taken by Te Rangi-whakaputa.
What happens: storm, take · To what, where: Manuka village
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: 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 | 3 village | det |
| 2 | Manuka | Manuka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 village | compound |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stormed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 position | punct |
| 5 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 9 position | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 position | det |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 position | amod |
| 8 | defensive | defensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 position | amod |
| 9 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 village | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stormed | aux:pass |
| 12 | stormed | storm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stormed | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Te | case |
| 16 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl:agent |
| 17 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Te | flat |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 whakaputa | punct |
| 19 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Te | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stormed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm | past · passive | the Manuka village and a strong defensive position | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | participle | Te obl:agent | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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