Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 55
After the Rangi-whakaputa and his merry men had conquered the various Ngati-Mamoe _pas_ around the harbour, they found frequent diversion in hunting out stray members of the fugitive _hapus_ and converting them to a useful purpose through the medium of the oven.
Who acts: names · What happens: conquer, find, hunt out, convert · To what, where: various Ngati pas, harbour, frequent diversion, stray members, names, medium
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 (names), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 whakaputa | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whakaputa | det |
| 3 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 whakaputa | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rangi | punct |
| 5 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conquered | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 men | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 whakaputa | conj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 conquered | aux |
| 11 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pas | det |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pas | amod |
| 14 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pas | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ngati | punct |
| 16 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ngati | flat |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 pas | punct |
| 18 | pas | pa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conquered | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 conquered | punct |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 harbour | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 harbour | det |
| 22 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conquered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 conquered | parataxis |
| 26 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 diversion | amod |
| 27 | diversion | diversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 29 hunting | mark |
| 29 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 found | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 hunting | compound:prt |
| 31 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 members | amod |
| 32 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hunting | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 fugitive | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fugitive | det |
| 35 | fugitive | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 members | nmod |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 hapus | punct |
| 37 | hapus | hapus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hunting | obl |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 converting | cc |
| 40 | converting | convert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 found | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 converting | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 purpose | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 purpose | det |
| 44 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 purpose | amod |
| 45 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 converting | obl |
| 46 | through | through | ADP | _ | 48 medium | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 medium | det |
| 48 | medium | medium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 converting | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 oven | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 oven | det |
| 51 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 medium | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past · perfect | the various Ngati pas | the harbour | after the Rangi whakaputa and Head's merry men | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pa=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past | names = name | frequent diversion | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diversion=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hunt out | gerund | names = name not said here | stray members of the fugitive | hapus obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme | |||
| 4 | convert | gerund | names = name not said here | names = name | the medium of the oven | to a useful purpose result | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient to purpose=Result |
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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