Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 15
The well-plucked Ngati-Irakehu and their kinsmen have title to say, as Nelson said of old of his fighting sailors, “We are few, but the right sort.”
Who acts: plucked Ngati, Nelson, We · What happens: pluck, have, say, be · To what, where: title · 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 (plucked Ngati, Nelson, We), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ngati | det |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 plucked | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 well | punct |
| 4 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Ngati | amod |
| 5 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Irakehu | punct |
| 7 | Irakehu | Irakehu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ngati | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kinsmen | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Ngati | conj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 title | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 17 | Nelson | Nelson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 old | case |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sailors | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sailors | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sailors | compound |
| 24 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 old | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 few | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 few | punct |
| 27 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 few | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 few | cop |
| 29 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sailors | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sort | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 sort | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sort | det |
| 33 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sort | amod |
| 34 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | participle | well property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the plucked Ngati and Irakehu and Ngati's kinsmen | title | the right sort parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the plucked Ngati and Irakehu and Ngati's kinsmen not said here | title not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Nelson | old property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | We | few property | tree rules |
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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