Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 79

There are none of the ancient fire trees on the bay shores nowadays; the _pakeha’s_ pinus insignis and cocksfoot grass have long supplanted them.

Who acts: none · What happens: be, shore, supplant · To what, where: _ pakeha

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 (none), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shores	advcl
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 shores	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 none	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bay	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bay	det
11	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	nmod
12	shores	shore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	12 shores	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 supplanted	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pakeha	det
16	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pakeha	amod
17	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supplanted	nsubj:pass
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 pakeha	case
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 insignis	punct
20	pinus	pinus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 insignis	compound
21	insignis	insignis	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 supplanted	nsubj:pass
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grass	cc
23	cocksfoot	cocksfoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grass	compound
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 insignis	conj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 supplanted	aux
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 supplanted	advmod
27	supplanted	supplant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shores	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 supplanted	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 shores	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	none of the ancient fire trees on the bay not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shore	present	none of the ancient fire trees on the bay			nowadays property	tree rules
3	supplant	present · perfect · passive		the _ pakeha		pinus insignis and cocksfoot grass nsubj:pass; insignis obj; long property	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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 79