Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 27
It suited this enterprising warrior, who is described by his descendant Taare Tikao as a great _toa_ or brave.
Who acts: name, descendant · What happens: suit, describe · To what, where: enterprising warrior
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 (name, descendant), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 suited | nsubj |
| 2 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 warrior | det |
| 4 | enterprising | enterprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warrior | compound |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suited | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 described | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 described | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 described | aux:pass |
| 9 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 descendant | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 descendant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | descendant | descendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 described | obl |
| 13 | Taare | Taare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 descendant | appos |
| 14 | Tikao | Tikao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taare | flat |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 toa | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 toa | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 toa | amod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 19 | toa | toa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 described | obl |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 toa | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 brave | cc |
| 22 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 toa | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | past | name | this enterprising warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | present · passive | whakaputa's descendant | this enterprising warrior | as a great toa | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as toa=Attribute |
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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