Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 51
The Governor’s Bay school now occupies the spot where this long-vanished stockaded hamlet stood.
Who acts: Bay school, stockaded hamlet · What happens: occupy, stockade, stand · To what, where: spot
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 (Bay school, stockaded hamlet), 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 Governor | det |
| 2 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 school | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Governor | case |
| 4 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 school | compound |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occupies | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 occupies | advmod |
| 7 | occupies | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occupies | obj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | advmod |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 hamlet | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stockaded | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 stockaded | aux:pass |
| 15 | stockaded | stockade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hamlet | amod |
| 16 | hamlet | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spot | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 occupies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | present | the Governor's Bay school | the spot | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spot=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | stockade | participle · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | this stockaded hamlet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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