Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 81
It is an historic and appropriate name, carrying one back to the ancient days when the brown sailors hauled their long canoes up on its little shelving beach.
Who acts: papa, brown sailors · What happens: be, carry back, haul up · To what, where: historic name, one, long canoes, little shelving beach
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 (papa, brown sailors), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 4 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 appropriate | cc |
| 6 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 historic | conj |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 name | nmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 carrying | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 carrying | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carrying | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 hauled | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sailors | det |
| 18 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sailors | amod |
| 19 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hauled | nsubj |
| 20 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carrying | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 canoes | amod |
| 23 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hauled | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 hauled | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 beach | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 beach | nmod:poss |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 beach | amod |
| 28 | shelving | shelving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beach | compound |
| 29 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hauled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | papa | a historic name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry back | gerund | one | day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | haul up | past | the brown sailors | names's long canoes | papa's little shelving beach | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme |
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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