Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 57
Mawete, the chief of Ngati-Mamoe, and a party of men from Manuka _pa_ were on their way across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks when they were ambuscaded in the bush just below Cooper’s Knobs by a band of Ngai-Tahu warriors.
Who acts: band · What happens: be, ambuscade · To what, where: way, sharks, bush, Mawete
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 (band), 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 | Mawete | Mawete | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chief | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mawete | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ngati | case |
| 6 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mamoe | punct |
| 8 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ngati | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 party | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 party | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 party | det |
| 12 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mawete | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 party | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Manuka | case |
| 16 | Manuka | Manuka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 pa | punct |
| 18 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mawete | appos |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mawete | appos |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 range | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 range | det |
| 26 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Harbour | case |
| 28 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Harbour | compound |
| 29 | Harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 range | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 fish | case |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Harbour | nmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 sharks | case |
| 33 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fish | nmod |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 ambuscaded | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ambuscaded | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 ambuscaded | aux:pass |
| 37 | ambuscaded | ambuscade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 way | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 bush | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bush | det |
| 40 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ambuscaded | obl |
| 41 | just | just | ADV | _ | 45 Knobs | advmod |
| 42 | below | below | ADP | _ | 45 Knobs | case |
| 43 | Cooper | Cooper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Knobs | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 Cooper | case |
| 45 | Knobs | Knob | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 bush | appos |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 band | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 band | det |
| 48 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ambuscaded | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Ngai | case |
| 50 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 band | nmod |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 Tahu | punct |
| 52 | Tahu | Tahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Ngai | conj |
| 53 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ambuscaded | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mawete | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | parties's way | across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks; parties = party nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ambuscade | past · passive | a band of Ngai and Tahu | sharks = shark | the bush | warriors obj | tree rules |
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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