Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 48
Ohinetahi[1] _pa_, defended with a palisade of split tree-trunks and with ditch and parapet, stood near the shore at the head of Governor’s Bay two hundred years ago.
Who acts: Ohinetahi pa · What happens: defend, stand · To what, where: Ohinetahi pa, shore
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 (Ohinetahi pa), 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 | Ohinetahi | Ohinetahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pa | compound |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Ohinetahi | flat |
| 4 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 1 | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 pa | punct |
| 6 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 pa | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 defended | punct |
| 9 | defended | defend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pa | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 palisade | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 palisade | det |
| 12 | palisade | palisade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 defended | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trunks | case |
| 14 | split | split | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trunks | amod |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trunks | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tree | punct |
| 17 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 palisade | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ditch | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ditch | case |
| 20 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trunks | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 parapet | cc |
| 22 | parapet | parapet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ditch | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Bay | case |
| 32 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Governor | case |
| 34 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 head | nmod |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 hundred | compound |
| 36 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 years | nummod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 stood | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defend | participle | Ohinetahi pa not said here | with a palisade of split tree trunks and ditch and parapet | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Ohinetahi pa | the shore | at the head of Governor's Bay; ago property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near shore=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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