Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 66
Te Whaka-raupo is the ancient name of Port Cooper or Lyttelton Harbour.
Who acts: Whaka raupo · What happens: be · To what, where: ancient name
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 (Whaka raupo), 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 | Te | te | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 2 | Whaka | Whaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raupo | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whaka | punct |
| 4 | raupo | raupo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Port | case |
| 10 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 11 | Cooper | Cooper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Port | flat |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Lyttelton | cc |
| 13 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Port | conj |
| 14 | Harbour | Harbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lyttelton | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Whaka raupo | the ancient name | of Port or Lyttelton | 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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