Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 50
This chief Manuwhiri had many sons, but only one daughter, and he named his _pa_ after his solitary girl, “The Place of the One Daughter.”
Who acts: chief, son · What happens: have, name · To what, where: many sons, _ pa
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 (chief, son), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Manuwhiri | Manuwhiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chief | appos |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sons | amod |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 daughter | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 daughter | nummod |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 named | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 named | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 named | nsubj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pa | nmod:poss |
| 17 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pa | amod |
| 18 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 named | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 named | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 girl | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 girl | nmod:poss |
| 22 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 named | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Place | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Place | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Place | det |
| 27 | Place | Place | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 girl | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Daughter | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Daughter | det |
| 30 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 Daughter | nummod |
| 31 | Daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Place | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this chief | many sons but one daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | past | son | son's _ pa | after son's solitary girl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pa=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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