Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 74
Corsair Bay was named by Te Rangi-whakaputa, Motu-kauati-iti, meaning “Little Fire-making Tree-grove,” and Cass Bay was Motu-kauati-rahi, or “Great Fire-making Tree-grove.”
Who acts: Te, Cass Bay, Great Fire · What happens: name, mean, make, be · To what, where: Corsair Bay, Little Fire, Tree grove, Motu kauati rahi · 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 (Te, Cass Bay, Great Fire), 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 | 2 Bay | compound |
| 2 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 named | aux:pass |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Te | case |
| 6 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | obl |
| 7 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Te | flat |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 whakaputa | punct |
| 9 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Te | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 iti | punct |
| 11 | Motu | Motu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 iti | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Motu | punct |
| 13 | kauati | kauati | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 iti | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kauati | punct |
| 15 | iti | iti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Te | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meaning | punct |
| 17 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 named | advcl |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fire | punct |
| 19 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Fire | amod |
| 20 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 meaning | obj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fire | punct |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 rahi | csubj |
| 23 | Tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grove | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Tree | punct |
| 25 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 making | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Bay | cc |
| 29 | Cass | Cass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bay | compound |
| 30 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rahi | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 rahi | cop |
| 32 | Motu | Motu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rahi | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Motu | punct |
| 34 | kauati | kauati | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rahi | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 kauati | punct |
| 36 | rahi | rahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meaning | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 making | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 making | cc |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 making | punct |
| 40 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Fire | amod |
| 41 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 making | nsubj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Fire | punct |
| 43 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 rahi | advcl |
| 44 | Tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 grove | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Tree | punct |
| 46 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 making | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 rahi | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 rahi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | Te | Corsair Bay | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | Te not said here | Little Fire | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | gerund | Tree grove | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grove=Product | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Cass Bay | Motu kauati rahi | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | gerund | Great Fire | Tree grove | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Product |
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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