Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 89

The eggs (_hua_) of the sea-fowl were esteemed delicacies, especially by the children (_tamariki_), who were fond of roasting them on their island expeditions.

Who acts: eggs, tamariki · What happens: esteem, be, roast · To what, where: esteemed delicacies, eggs

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 (eggs, tamariki), 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 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 delicacies	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 hua	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 hua	punct
5	hua	hua	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eggs	conj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 hua	punct
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 hua	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 fowl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fowl	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fowl	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
12	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hua	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 delicacies	cop
14	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 delicacies	amod
15	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 children	punct
17	especially	especially	ADV	_	20 children	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 children	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 delicacies	appos
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 tamariki	punct
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 tamariki	punct
23	tamariki	tamariki	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 children	appos
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 tamariki	punct
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 tamariki	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fond	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fond	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fond	cop
29	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tamariki	parataxis
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 roasting	mark
31	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 fond	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 roasting	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 expeditions	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 expeditions	nmod:poss
35	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 expeditions	compound
36	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 roasting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 delicacies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	esteem	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the eggs and hua of the sea fowl	esteemed delicacies	the children appos	tree rules
3	is	past	tamariki		fond property	tree rules
4	roast	gerund	tamariki not said here	eggs = egg	on eggs's island expeditions	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient on expedition=Instrument

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 89