Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 5
The explanation brings in a reference to the religion of the tattooed pagan pioneers who explored those hills and plains, and planted their palisaded hamlets by creek-side and in the sheltered folds of the ranges.
Who acts: explanation, tattooed pagan pioneers · What happens: bring, tattoo, explore, plant, palisade, shelter · To what, where: reference, hills, palisaded hamlets
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 (explanation, tattooed pagan pioneers), 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 explanation | det |
| 2 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reference | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reference | det |
| 6 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 religion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 religion | det |
| 9 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pioneers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pioneers | det |
| 12 | tattooed | tattoo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pioneers | amod |
| 13 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pioneers | amod |
| 14 | pioneers | pioneer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 religion | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 explored | nsubj |
| 16 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pioneers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 hills | det |
| 18 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 explored | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 plains | cc |
| 20 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hills | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 planted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 planted | cc |
| 23 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brings | parataxis |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hamlets | nmod:poss |
| 25 | palisaded | palisade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hamlets | amod |
| 26 | hamlets | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 planted | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 28 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 side | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 creek | punct |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 planted | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 folds | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 folds | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 folds | det |
| 34 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 folds | amod |
| 35 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 side | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 ranges | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ranges | det |
| 38 | ranges | range | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 folds | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the explanation | a reference | to the religion of the tattooed pagan pioneers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to religion=Destination | |||
| 2 | tattoo | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | explore | past | the tattooed pagan pioneers | that hills and plains | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent hill=Location | ||||
| 4 | plant | past | Plains's palisaded hamlets | by creek side and the sheltered folds of the ranges | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hamlet=Theme by side=Destination | ||||
| 5 | palisade | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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