Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 67
The name sometimes has been given as Te Waka-raupo, which means “The Canoe of Raupo reeds,” otherwise a raft or _mokihi_ of the type so often used on the South Island rivers.
Who acts: name, Canoe · What happens: give, mean, reed, use · To what, where: name, type, Island rivers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, Canoe), 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 | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 given | advmod |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 name | acl:relcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 raupo | case |
| 8 | Te | te | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 raupo | amod |
| 9 | Waka | Waka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 raupo | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Waka | punct |
| 11 | raupo | raupo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 reeds | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Canoe | det |
| 17 | Canoe | Canoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 reeds | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Raupo | case |
| 19 | Raupo | Raupo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Canoe | nmod |
| 20 | reeds | reed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 raft | csubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reeds | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 reeds | punct |
| 23 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 25 raft | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 raft | det |
| 25 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | ccomp |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 mokihi | cc |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 mokihi | punct |
| 28 | mokihi | mokihi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 raft | conj |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 raft | punct |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 type | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 type | det |
| 32 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 _ | nmod |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 often | advmod |
| 34 | often | often | ADV | _ | 35 used | advmod |
| 35 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 type | acl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 rivers | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 rivers | det |
| 38 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Island | compound |
| 39 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 rivers | compound |
| 40 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 used | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect · passive | the name not said here | as Te Waka raupo; sometimes property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the name | which nsubj; a raft or mokihi ccomp | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reed in a quote | present | the Canoe of Raupo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | participle | the type not said here | the Island rivers | often property | vn eat-39.1 «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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