Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 16
The _Kaumatua_ of Rapaki, the pleasant-mannered kindly greybeard, Hone Taare Tikao, a gentleman of true _rangatira_ breeding and demeanour, is the best informed man of his tribe-remnant on the Peninsula and Port Hills history and legends and genealogical recitals--_whakapapa_ in the Maori tongue.
Who acts: Kaumatua _ · What happens: inform, be, hill · To what, where: best informed man, history
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 (Kaumatua _), 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 | 4 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 _ | punct |
| 3 | Kaumatua | Kaumatua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | compound |
| 4 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 man | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rapaki | case |
| 6 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 greybeard | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 greybeard | det |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mannered | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleasant | punct |
| 11 | mannered | mannered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 greybeard | amod |
| 12 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 13 greybeard | advmod |
| 13 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hone | punct |
| 15 | Hone | hone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greybeard | conj |
| 16 | Taare | Taare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hone | appos |
| 17 | Tikao | Tikao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Taare | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gentleman | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gentleman | det |
| 20 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greybeard | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 rangatira | case |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rangatira | amod |
| 23 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rangatira | amod |
| 24 | rangatira | rangatira | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gentleman | nmod |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 breeding | punct |
| 26 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greybeard | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 demeanour | cc |
| 28 | demeanour | demeanour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 breeding | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 _ | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 man | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 man | amod |
| 33 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 man | amod |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 remnant | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 remnant | nmod:poss |
| 37 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 remnant | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 tribe | punct |
| 39 | remnant | remnant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Hills | obl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 Peninsula | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Peninsula | det |
| 42 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 remnant | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Port | cc |
| 44 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Peninsula | conj |
| 45 | Hills | hill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 man | parataxis |
| 46 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Hills | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 legends | cc |
| 48 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 Hills | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 recitals | cc |
| 50 | genealogical | genealogical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 recitals | amod |
| 51 | recitals | recital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 legends | conj |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 whakapapa | punct |
| 53 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 54 whakapapa | punct |
| 54 | whakapapa | whakapapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 legends | conj |
| 55 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 54 whakapapa | punct |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 tongue | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 tongue | det |
| 58 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 tongue | compound |
| 59 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 whakapapa | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | participle | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Kaumatua _ of Rapaki | the best informed man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hill | present | history | of _'s tribe remnant on the Peninsula and Port; legends and genealogical recitals and whakapapa in the Maori tongue conj | 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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