Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 78
_Motu_ in these two names is a tree-clump or grove.
Who acts: Motu · What happens: be · To what, where: tree clump
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 (Motu), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Motu | punct |
| 2 | Motu | Motu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 clump | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Motu | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 names | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 names | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 names | nummod |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Motu | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 clump | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 clump | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clump | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 12 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 grove | cc |
| 14 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clump | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 clump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Motu in this two names | a tree clump or grove | grove conj | 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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