Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 22
The Rangi-whakaputa’s name in these parts is associated with Homeric exploits with the weapons of old.
Who acts: Rangi whakaputa · What happens: associate, name · To what, where: name, parts
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 (Rangi 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 | 4 whakaputa | det |
| 2 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 whakaputa | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rangi | punct |
| 4 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 whakaputa | case |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 parts | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 parts | det |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 name | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 associated | aux:pass |
| 11 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 exploits | case |
| 13 | Homeric | Homeric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 exploits | compound |
| 14 | exploits | exploit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 associated | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 weapons | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 weapons | det |
| 17 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 exploits | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 old | case |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 weapons | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 associated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | associate | present · passive | the Rangi whakaputa's name in this parts | with Homeric exploits with the weapons of old | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with exploit=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | the Rangi whakaputa | this parts | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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