Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 92
It is a barbed-wire fence, perhaps, to the average _pakeha_, yet abbreviated it is not inappropriate as a Plains homestead name.
Who acts: tribe · What happens: be, abbreviate, not be · To what, where: barbed wire fence
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 (tribe), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fence | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fence | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fence | det |
| 4 | barbed | barbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fence | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 barbed | punct |
| 6 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fence | compound |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 perhaps | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 fence | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 average | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 average | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 average | det |
| 13 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fence | parataxis |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 pakeha | punct |
| 15 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 average | conj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 average | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inappropriate | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 23 inappropriate | cc |
| 19 | abbreviated | abbreviate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 inappropriate | amod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 inappropriate | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 inappropriate | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 inappropriate | advmod |
| 23 | inappropriate | inappropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fence | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 name | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 26 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 name | compound |
| 27 | homestead | homestead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 name | compound |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inappropriate | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tribe | a barbed wire fence | the average and pakeha parataxis; perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | abbreviate | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | tribe | as a Plains homestead name; inappropriate property | 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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