Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 25

On the beach below the present village he left his waist-garment, a kilt of flax or _toi_ leaves, probably in connection with the act of _tapa_-ing the place as his possession, and from the fact of this _rapaki_, which would be a _tapu_ one, being cast there the place received its name.

Who acts: whakaputa, connection, rapaki, place, tapa · What happens: leave, e, be, cast, receive, act · To what, where: waist garment, place, fact, _ tapu, name, beach

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 (whakaputa, connection, rapaki, place), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 beach	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beach	det
3	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	below	below	ADP	_	7 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
6	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 village	amod
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beach	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 village	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 garment	nmod:poss
11	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 garment	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 waist	punct
13	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kilt	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 kilt	det
16	kilt	kilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beach	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 flax	case
18	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kilt	nmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 leaves	cc
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 toi	punct
21	toi	toi	X	Foreign=Yes	23 leaves	nmod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 leaves	punct
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beach	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 connection	punct
25	probably	probably	ADV	_	27 connection	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 connection	case
27	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beach	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 act	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 act	det
30	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 connection	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 tapa	case
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 of	punct
33	tapa	tapa	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 act	nmod
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 ing	punct
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 ing	punct
36	ing	e	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 connection	acl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ing	obj
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 possession	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 possession	nmod:poss
41	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 fact	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fact	cc
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 fact	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fact	det
46	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ing	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 this	case
48	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 fact	nmod
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 rapaki	punct
50	rapaki	rapaki	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fact	conj
51	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 rapaki	punct
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 tapu	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 tapu	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 tapu	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 tapu	cop
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 tapu	det
57	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 tapu	amod
58	tapu	tapu	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rapaki	conj
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 one	punct
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 rapaki	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 cast	punct
62	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 cast	aux:pass
63	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 one	conj
64	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 cast	advmod
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 place	det
66	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 received	nsubj
67	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 cast	parataxis
68	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 name	nmod:poss
69	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 received	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	whakaputa	whakaputa's waist garment			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme
2	e	gerund	connection with the act of tapa not said here	the place	the fact of this and rapaki one and a _ tapu	as whakaputa's possession	tree rules
3	is a	would	rapaki one and a _ tapu	a _ tapu			tree rules
4	cast	gerund · passive	connection with the act of tapa not said here		there		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»
5	receive	past	the place	place's name			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
7	act		tapa				nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	possess		whakaputa				nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	name		place				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 25