Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 71
The _tino_ or exact place from which the harbour takes this name is Governor’s Bay, at the head of which there was a swamp filled with a thick and high growth of these reeds.
Who acts: harbour, name, reeds · What happens: take, be, fill, grow · To what, where: exact place, Bay, swamp, tino
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 (harbour, name, reeds), 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 | 3 tino | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 tino | punct |
| 3 | tino | tino | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 tino | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 place | cc |
| 6 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tino | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 takes | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harbour | det |
| 11 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | parataxis |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Bay | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Bay | cop |
| 16 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Governor | case |
| 18 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 head | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 was | obl |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 head | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 swamp | det |
| 28 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 swamp | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 growth | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 growth | det |
| 32 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 growth | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 high | cc |
| 34 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 thick | conj |
| 35 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 filled | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 reeds | case |
| 37 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 reeds | det |
| 38 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 growth | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tino | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the harbour | exact place | at the head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent from which=Source at head=Asset | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this name | Governor's Bay | Governor nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fill | participle | a swamp not said here | with a thick growth of this reeds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with growth=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | grow | this reeds | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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