Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 6
Kahukura--Uenuku in the North Island--was the principal deity for what may be termed everyday use among the ancient Ngai-Tahu.
Who acts: Kahukura · What happens: be, term · To what, where: principal deity, everyday use
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 (Kahukura), 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 | Kahukura | Kahukura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 deity | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Uenuku | punct |
| 3 | Uenuku | Uenuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kahukura | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Island | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Island | compound |
| 7 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Uenuku | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kahukura | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 deity | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 deity | det |
| 11 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deity | amod |
| 12 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 termed | obl |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 termed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 termed | aux:pass |
| 17 | termed | term | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 deity | acl:relcl |
| 18 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 use | amod |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 termed | obj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 Tahu | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tahu | det |
| 22 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Tahu | amod |
| 23 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Tahu | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ngai | punct |
| 25 | Tahu | Tahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 termed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 deity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kahukura and Uenuku in the North Island | the principal deity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | term | may · passive | everyday use | for the principal deity; among the ancient Ngai Tahu | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: use=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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