Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 87
Herein is a reference to an era when the island was a birding ground of the olden race.
Who acts: reference · What happens: be · To what, where: reference, birding ground
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 (reference), 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 | Herein | herein | ADV | _ | 4 reference | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reference | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 reference | det |
| 4 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 era | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 era | det |
| 7 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reference | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 ground | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ground | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 13 | birding | birding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | compound |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 race | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 race | det |
| 17 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 race | amod |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ground | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a reference | to a era; herein property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a reference | a birding ground | of the olden race; the island nsubj | 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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