Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 47
(Like several other New Zealand trees the fruit of the _kotukutuku_ is given a different name from the plant itself.)
What happens: give · To what, where: fruit, plant
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: 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 2 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trees | amod |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trees | amod |
| 5 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Zealand | flat |
| 6 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trees | compound |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 given | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fruit | det |
| 9 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 _ | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 _ | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 _ | punct |
| 13 | kotukutuku | kotukutuku | X | _ | 14 _ | compound |
| 14 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fruit | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux:pass |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 18 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 name | amod |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 plant | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plant | det |
| 22 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 plant | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the fruit of the kotukutuku _ | the plant fruit | like several other Zealand trees; a different name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme |
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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