Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 21
The full name of the place is Te Rapaki-a-Te Rangi-whakaputa which means “the waist-mat of Te Rangi-whakaputa,” and to it, obviously, there hangs a story, which when told leads on to the tradition of the conquest of this district from the Ngati-Mamoe a little over two centuries ago.
Who acts: full name, Te whakaputa · What happens: be, mean, hang, tell, lead, name · To what, where: Te, story, tradition, place · 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 (full name, Te whakaputa), 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 | 3 name | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Te | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Te | cop |
| 8 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 hangs | obl |
| 9 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Te | flat |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 whakaputa | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 13 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 whakaputa | compound |
| 14 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Te | flat |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 whakaputa | punct |
| 16 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Te | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 whakaputa | acl:relcl |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mat | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mat | det |
| 21 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mat | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 waist | punct |
| 23 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Te | case |
| 25 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mat | nmod |
| 26 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Te | flat |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 whakaputa | punct |
| 28 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Te | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 whakaputa | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mat | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 it | cc |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 means | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whakaputa | punct |
| 35 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 16 whakaputa | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hangs | punct |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 hangs | expl |
| 38 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 story | det |
| 40 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hangs | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 leads | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 leads | obj |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 told | advmod |
| 44 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 leads | csubj:pass |
| 45 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 story | acl |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 tradition | case |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 tradition | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 tradition | det |
| 49 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 leads | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 conquest | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 conquest | det |
| 52 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tradition | nmod |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 district | case |
| 54 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 55 district | det |
| 55 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 conquest | nmod |
| 56 | from | from | ADP | _ | 60 Mamoe | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 Mamoe | det |
| 58 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Mamoe | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 Ngati | punct |
| 60 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 district | nmod |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 little | det |
| 62 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 Mamoe | obl:unmarked |
| 63 | over | over | ADP | _ | 65 centuries | case |
| 64 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 65 centuries | nummod |
| 65 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 leads | obl |
| 66 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 45 leads | advmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the full name of the place | Te | a Te whakaputa appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | a Te whakaputa | the waist mat of Te ccomp; name conj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang | present | a story | there | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lead | present | a story | the tradition of the conquest of this district from the Ngati Mamoe | century | ago property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme on tradition=Destination | ||
| 6 | name | the place | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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