Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 73

Corsair Bay and Cass Bay, as the _Kaumatua_ of Rapaki tells us, have Maori names which contain a reference not only to the ancient forests which clothed the slopes of the Port Hills and descended to the sandy beachside, but to one of the vanished practices of the native people, fire-making by wood-friction.

Who acts: Corsair, Maori names, ancient forests, one · What happens: tell, have, contain, clothe, descend, vanish · To what, where: us, Maori names, reference, slopes, sandy beachside, native people · 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 (Corsair, Maori names, ancient forests, one), 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	Corsair	Corsair	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tells	nsubj
2	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Corsair	flat
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Bay	cc
4	Cass	Cass	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bay	compound
5	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Corsair	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 _	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	11 _	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 _	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 _	punct
10	Kaumatua	Kaumatua	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 _	compound
11	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Corsair	list
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Rapaki	case
13	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 _	nmod
14	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tells	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tells	ccomp
18	Maori	maori	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 names	compound
19	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 contain	nsubj
21	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 names	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 reference	det
23	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 contain	obj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 forests	advmod
25	only	only	ADV	_	29 forests	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 forests	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forests	det
28	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 forests	amod
29	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 contain	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 clothed	nsubj
31	clothed	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 forests	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 slopes	det
33	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 clothed	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Hills	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Hills	det
36	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Hills	compound
37	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 slopes	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 descended	cc
39	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 clothed	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 beachside	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 beachside	det
42	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beachside	amod
43	beachside	beachside	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 descended	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 making	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 making	cc
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 one	case
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 making	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 practices	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 practices	det
50	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 practices	amod
51	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 one	nmod
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 people	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 people	det
54	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 people	amod
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 practices	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 making	punct
57	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 making	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 fire	punct
59	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 have	advcl
60	by	by	ADP	_	63 friction	case
61	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 friction	compound
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	61 wood	punct
63	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 making	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Corsair as the Kaumatua _ of Rapaki and Cass Bay		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	present		Maori names				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	contain	present	Maori names	a reference			to the ancient forests	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reference=Theme
4	clothe	past	the ancient forests	the slopes of the Port Hills				vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slope=Patient
5	descend	participle	the ancient forests not said here			the sandy beachside		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to beachside=Location
6	vanish	participle						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	make	gerund	one of the vanished practices of the native people				by wood friction; fire compound	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	practice			the native people				nom practice «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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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 73