Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 62
Herbert--with its level top, where a lofty _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe stood three centuries ago.
Who acts: Herbert · What happens: stand
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 (Herbert), 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 | Herbert | Herbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 top | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 top | nmod:poss |
| 5 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 top | amod |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Herbert | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pa | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 pa | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pa | det |
| 10 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pa | amod |
| 11 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pa | compound |
| 12 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | conj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Mamoe | case |
| 15 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mamoe | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ngati | punct |
| 17 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 centuries | nummod |
| 20 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 stood | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Herbert | of Ngati Mamoe; ago property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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