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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 88

Many sea-birds, gulls and puffins and divers, bred in the crannies of its fire-made rocky shores, and the mainland Maoris canoed across on fowling expeditions.

Who acts: Many sea birds · What happens: breed, make, canoe, fowl · To what, where: Many sea birds, crannies, expeditions

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 (Many sea birds), 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

amodcompoundpunctnsubjpunctconjccconjccconjpunctaclcasedetoblcasenmod:posscompoundpunctamodamodnmodpunctccdetnsubjapposadvmodmarkadvclobjpunctrootManyADJseaNOUN-PUNCTbirdsNOUN,PUNCTgullsNOUNandCCONJpuffinsNOUNandCCONJdiversNOUN,PUNCTbredVERBinADPtheDETcranniesNOUNofADPitsPRONfireNOUN-PUNCTmadeVERBrockyADJshoresNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmainlandNOUNMaorisPROPNcanoedVERBacrossADVonSCONJfowlingVERBexpeditionsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ManymanyADJDegree=Pos4 birdsamod
2seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing4 birdscompound
3--PUNCT_2 seapunct
4birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur28 canoednsubj
5,,PUNCT_6 gullspunct
6gullsgullNOUNNumber=Plur4 birdsconj
7andandCCONJ_8 puffinscc
8puffinspuffinNOUNNumber=Plur6 gullsconj
9andandCCONJ_10 diverscc
10diversdiverNOUNNumber=Plur6 gullsconj
11,,PUNCT_12 bredpunct
12bredbreedVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 birdsacl
13ininADP_15 cranniescase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 cranniesdet
15cranniescrannyNOUNNumber=Plur12 bredobl
16ofofADP_22 shorescase
17itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 shoresnmod:poss
18firefireNOUNNumber=Sing20 madecompound
19--PUNCT_18 firepunct
20mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 shoresamod
21rockyrockyADJDegree=Pos22 shoresamod
22shoresshoreNOUNNumber=Plur15 cranniesnmod
23,,PUNCT_28 canoedpunct
24andandCCONJ_28 canoedcc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 mainlanddet
26mainlandmainlandNOUNNumber=Sing28 canoednsubj
27MaorisMaorisPROPNNumber=Sing26 mainlandappos
28canoedcanoeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
29acrossacrossADV_28 canoedadvmod
30ononSCONJ_31 fowlingmark
31fowlingfowlVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part28 canoedadvcl
32expeditionsexpeditionNOUNNumber=Plur31 fowlingobj
33..PUNCT_28 canoedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1breedparticipleMany sea birds and gulls and puffins and divers not said herethe crannies of race's made rocky shorestree rules
2makeparticiplefire compoundvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3canoepastMany sea birds and gulls and puffins and diversthe mainland nsubj; across propertyvn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4fowlgerundMany sea birds and gulls and puffins and divers not said hereexpeditionsvn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Location

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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