Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 13
(No Kipling monopoly in the phrase: “Bury me here,” said old Major Pokiha, of the Arawa, a fighting chief of the last generation--“bury me here as salt for the lands of my heroes”).
Who acts: Kipling monopoly · What happens: bury, say, fight · To what, where: Kipling monopoly · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kipling monopoly), 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 | _ | 4 monopoly | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 monopoly | det |
| 3 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 monopoly | compound |
| 4 | monopoly | monopoly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 phrase | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 phrase | det |
| 7 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monopoly | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bury | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bury | punct |
| 10 | Bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 monopoly | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Bury | obj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Bury | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bury | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bury | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Pokiha | amod |
| 17 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pokiha | compound |
| 18 | Pokiha | Pokiha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Arawa | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Arawa | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Arawa | det |
| 22 | Arawa | Arawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pokiha | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 chief | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 chief | det |
| 25 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 chief | amod |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Pokiha | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 generation | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 generation | det |
| 29 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 generation | amod |
| 30 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chief | nmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 bury | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 bury | punct |
| 33 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 bury | obj |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 bury | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 salt | case |
| 37 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bury | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 lands | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lands | det |
| 40 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bury | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 heroes | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 heroes | nmod:poss |
| 43 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 lands | nmod |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 heroes | punct |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 heroes | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury in a quote | infinitive | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase = monopoly | here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase | old Major Pokiha and the Arawa nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bury in a quote | infinitive | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase not said here | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase = monopoly | here | as salt; for the lands of my heroes | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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