Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 56
Often there were bush skirmishes, and although the Ngati-Mamoe frequently put up a good fight, they usually got the worst of the encounter.
Who acts: bush skirmishes, Ngati Mamoe, skirmishes · What happens: be, put up, get · To what, where: good fight, worst
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 (bush skirmishes, Ngati Mamoe, skirmishes), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bush | bush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skirmishes | amod |
| 5 | skirmishes | skirmish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mamoe | det |
| 10 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mamoe | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ngati | punct |
| 12 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 put | nsubj |
| 13 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fight | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fight | amod |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 21 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 22 got | advmod |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 were | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 worst | det |
| 24 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 got | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 encounter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 encounter | det |
| 27 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 worst | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | bush skirmishes | there | often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | put up | past | the Ngati Mamoe | a good fight | frequently property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fight=Goal | |||
| 3 | get | past | skirmishes = skirmish | the worst of the encounter | usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=Stimulus |
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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