Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 58

The Ngati-Mamoe chief and most of his followers were killed in the skirmish that followed, with the Maori weapons of wood and stone, the spear, the _taiaha_, and the sharp-edged _patu_, and their bodies went into the oven, for the Maori’s commissariat in that age was the flesh of his foeman.

Who acts: skirmish, bodies, commissariat · What happens: kill, follow, edge, go, be · To what, where: Mamoe chief, skirmish, oven, flesh

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 (skirmish, bodies, commissariat), 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	5 chief	det
2	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mamoe	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ngati	punct
4	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chief	compound
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	nsubj:pass
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 most	cc
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 chief	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 followers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 followers	nmod:poss
10	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 most	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	aux:pass
12	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 skirmish	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 skirmish	det
15	skirmish	skirmish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 followed	nsubj
17	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 skirmish	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 weapons	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 weapons	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 weapons	det
21	Maori	Maori	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 weapons	compound
22	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 killed	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wood	case
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weapons	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stone	cc
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wood	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spear	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 spear	det
29	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wood	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 taiaha	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 taiaha	det
32	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 taiaha	amod
33	taiaha	taiaha	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wood	conj
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 weapons	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 patu	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 patu	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 patu	det
38	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 edged	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 sharp	punct
40	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 patu	amod
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 patu	punct
42	patu	patu	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 killed	obl
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 patu	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 went	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 went	cc
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 bodies	nmod:poss
47	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 went	nsubj
48	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	conj
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 oven	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 oven	det
51	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 went	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 commissariat	punct
53	for	for	ADP	_	57 commissariat	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Maori	det
55	Maori	Maori	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 commissariat	nmod:poss
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 Maori	case
57	commissariat	commissariat	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flesh	nsubj
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 age	case
59	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 age	det
60	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 commissariat	nmod
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 flesh	cop
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 flesh	det
63	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 went	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 foeman	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 foeman	nmod:poss
66	foeman	foeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flesh	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past · passive		the Mamoe chief most of chief's followers	the skirmish	the edged patu obl; the Maori weapons of wood and stone and the spear and the _ taiaha parataxis	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	follow	past	the skirmish				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	edge	participle					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	skirmishes's bodies		the oven		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into oven=Initial_Location
5	is a	past	the Maori's commissariat in that age	the flesh		of chief's foeman	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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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 58