Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 9
The celestial form of Kahukura was the rainbow; literally the name means “Red Garment.”
Who acts: celestial form, name · What happens: be, mean, form · To what, where: rainbow, Red Garment, Kahukura
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 (celestial form, name), 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 | 3 form | det |
| 2 | celestial | celestial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | compound |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rainbow | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kahukura | case |
| 5 | Kahukura | Kahukura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rainbow | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rainbow | det |
| 8 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 10 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 13 means | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rainbow | parataxis |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Garment | punct |
| 15 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Garment | amod |
| 16 | Garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rainbow | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rainbow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the celestial form of Kahukura | the rainbow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the name | Red Garment | literally property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Topic | |||
| 3 | form | Kahukura | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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