Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 100

That patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long will show the first shoots of _kaanga_, or maize; there is not much grown in this island except by the Natives.

Who acts: patch, much · What happens: plough, show, be, grow · To what, where: first shoots, island

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patch, much), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 patch	det
2	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	ploughed	plough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 land	amod
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patch	nmod
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 settlement	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 settlement	det
8	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	nmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 long	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 patch	nmod
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 show	aux
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoots	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 shoots	amod
15	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 show	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 kaanga	case
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 of	punct
18	kaanga	kaanga	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoots	nmod
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 show	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 maize	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 maize	cc
22	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 show	conj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 is	nsubj
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 much	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 island	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 island	det
31	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grown	obl
32	except	except	ADP	_	35 Natives	case
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 Natives	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Natives	det
35	Natives	Native	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 island	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plough	participle					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	show	future	that patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long	the first shoots of kaanga		maize conj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shoot=Recipient
3	be	present	much		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	participle			this island except the Natives		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location

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, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 100