Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 77
The _kaikomako_ wood is used as the _kauati_, the piece which is rubbed; the pointed rubbing stick which the operator works to and fro is the _kaurima_.
Who acts: operator, pointed rubbing stick · What happens: use, rub, work, be · To what, where: kaikomako, piece, pointed rubbing stick, kaurima
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 (operator, pointed rubbing stick), 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 kaikomako | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 kaikomako | punct |
| 3 | kaikomako | kaikomako | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 wood | punct |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kaikomako | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 kauati | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kauati | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 kauati | punct |
| 11 | kauati | kauati | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 kauati | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 piece | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kauati | appos |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 18 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 piece | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stick | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stick | det |
| 21 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stick | amod |
| 22 | rubbing | rubbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stick | compound |
| 23 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kaurima | nsubj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 works | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 operator | det |
| 26 | operator | operator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 works | nsubj |
| 27 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stick | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 works | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fro | cc |
| 30 | fro | fro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stick | conj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 kaurima | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 kaurima | det |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 kaurima | punct |
| 34 | kaurima | kaurima | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | parataxis |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 kaurima | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | the kaikomako and wood | as the kauati | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as kauati=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | rub | present · passive | the piece | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work | present | the operator | the pointed rubbing stick and fro | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent which=Material | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the pointed rubbing stick and fro | the kaurima | tree rules |
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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