Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 72
It was here, at the head of Governor’s Bay, that the stockaded pa Ohinetahi stood; it was occupied by Te Rangi-whakaputa’s son after the dispersal of the Ngati-Mamoe tribe in these parts more than two hundred years ago.
Who acts: Harbour, stockaded pa · What happens: be, stockade, stand, disperse · To what, where: head, parts, Mamoe tribe
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, stockaded pa), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 here | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 here | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bay | case |
| 9 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bay | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Governor | case |
| 11 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 stood | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pa | det |
| 15 | stockaded | stockade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pa | amod |
| 16 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | Ohinetahi | Ohinetahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pa | appos |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 occupied | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 occupied | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 occupied | cop |
| 22 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stood | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Te | case |
| 24 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 occupied | obl |
| 25 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Te | flat |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Rangi | punct |
| 27 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 whakaputa | case |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Te | appos |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 dispersal | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dispersal | det |
| 32 | dispersal | dispersal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 tribe | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tribe | det |
| 35 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Mamoe | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Ngati | punct |
| 37 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 tribe | compound |
| 38 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dispersal | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 parts | case |
| 40 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 parts | det |
| 41 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stood | obl |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 45 hundred | advmod |
| 43 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 more | fixed |
| 44 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 hundred | compound |
| 45 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 years | nummod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 stood | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Harbour | the head of Governor's Bay | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stockade | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | the stockaded pa | this parts | after the dispersal of the Mamoe tribe | ago property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location | ||
| 4 | is | past | Harbour | by Te; occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | disperse | the Mamoe tribe | nom dispersal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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