Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 52
[Footnote 1: This name was adopted by the late T. H. Potts for his stone house at Governor’s Bay, directly below Kennedy’s Bush.]
Who acts: late T. H. Potts · What happens: adopt · To what, where: name, Bush, Footnote
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 (late T. H. Potts), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 adopted | punct |
| 5 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 adopted | aux:pass |
| 8 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Footnote | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Potts | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Potts | det |
| 11 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Potts | amod |
| 12 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Potts | compound |
| 13 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Potts | compound |
| 14 | Potts | Pott | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 adopted | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adopted | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Bay | case |
| 20 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Governor | case |
| 22 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Bush | punct |
| 24 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 28 Bush | advmod |
| 25 | below | below | ADP | _ | 28 Bush | case |
| 26 | Kennedy | Kennedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bush | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Kennedy | case |
| 28 | Bush | Bush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 adopted | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past · passive | the late T. H. Potts | this name | Kennedy's Bush | for school's stone house at Governor's Bay | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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