Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 84
The Ngati-Mamoe three hundred years ago had a small village on this rocky islet, commanding the harbour-gate; it was defended with a palisade.
Who acts: Ngati · What happens: have, command, defend · To what, where: small village, rocky islet, harbour gate, gate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ngati), 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 | 2 Ngati | det |
| 2 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mamoe | punct |
| 4 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ngati | conj |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 village | amod |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 islet | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 islet | det |
| 15 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 islet | amod |
| 16 | islet | islet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 village | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 commanding | punct |
| 18 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gate | det |
| 20 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gate | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 harbour | punct |
| 22 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commanding | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 defended | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 defended | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 defended | aux:pass |
| 26 | defended | defend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 palisade | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 palisade | det |
| 29 | palisade | palisade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 defended | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Ngati and Mamoe | a small village | this rocky islet | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Patient | ||
| 2 | command | gerund | the Ngati and Mamoe not said here | the harbour gate | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent gate=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | defend | past · passive | gate | with a palisade | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/84/