Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 22
Waitai had already explored the country, and was able to tell of its worth as a home for Ngai-Tahu.
Who acts: Waitai · What happens: explore, be, tell · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waitai), 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 | Waitai | Waitai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 explored | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 explored | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 explored | advmod |
| 4 | explored | explore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explored | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 able | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 explored | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 worth | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 worth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 home | det |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 worth | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Ngai | case |
| 20 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 home | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tahu | punct |
| 22 | Tahu | Tahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ngai | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | past · perfect | Waitai | the country | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent country=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Waitai not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Waitai not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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