Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 83

Ripapa is a white man’s fort these days, but centuries before a British gun was planted there it was a fortified place, though the weapons of its garrison would hardly carry as far as those of the present coast defence force.

Who acts: Ripapa, fort, weapons · What happens: be, plant, carry · To what, where: fort, fortified place, those

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 (Ripapa, fort, weapons), 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	Ripapa	Ripapa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fort	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fort	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fort	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	fort	fort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 planted	nsubj:pass
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fort	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 centuries	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 centuries	cc
12	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fort	obl
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 gun	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gun	det
15	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gun	amod
16	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 centuries	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 planted	aux:pass
18	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 planted	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 place	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 place	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 place	det
23	fortified	fortified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 place	amod
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 planted	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carry	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 carry	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 weapons	det
28	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 carry	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 garrison	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 garrison	nmod:poss
31	garrison	garrison	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weapons	nmod
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 carry	aux
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	34 carry	advmod
34	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 planted	parataxis
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 far	advmod
36	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 those	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 those	case
38	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 carry	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	44 force	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 force	det
41	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 force	amod
42	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 defence	compound
43	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 force	compound
44	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 those	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ripapa	a white man's fort		century; day	a white man nmod:poss	tree rules
2	plant	past · passive		a white man's fort	there			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	past	fort	a fortified place				tree rules
4	carry	would	the weapons of fort's garrison	those of the present defence force			hardly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 83