Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 14
One-eighth of the population of little Rapaki voluntarily enlisted.
Who acts: One eighth · What happens: enlist
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 (One eighth), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eighth | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 eighth | punct |
| 3 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enlisted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 population | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 population | det |
| 6 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eighth | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rapaki | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rapaki | amod |
| 9 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 population | nmod |
| 10 | voluntarily | voluntarily | ADV | _ | 11 enlisted | advmod |
| 11 | enlisted | enlist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 enlisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enlist | past | One eighth of the population of little Rapaki | voluntarily property | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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