Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 29

All these harbour-front villages and camping-grounds he captured from the Ngati-Mamoe who, as Tikao says, were the fourth _iwi_--race or tribe--to occupy the

Who acts: front villages, Tikao · What happens: capture, say, be, occupy · To what, where: Ngati Mamoe, fourth iwi, the · 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 (front villages, Tikao), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 villages	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 villages	det
3	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 harbour	punct
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 villages	amod
6	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 captured	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grounds	cc
8	camping	camping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grounds	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 camping	punct
10	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 villages	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 captured	nsubj
12	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 Mamoe	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mamoe	det
15	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Mamoe	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Mamoe	punct
17	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 captured	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 Mamoe	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 says	mark
21	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 iwi	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 iwi	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 iwi	det
26	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 iwi	amod
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 fourth	punct
28	iwi	iwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 captured	obl
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 iwi	punct
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 race	punct
31	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 iwi	appos
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 tribe	cc
33	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 race	conj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 occupy	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 occupy	mark
36	occupy	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 captured	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 occupy	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	capture	past	all front villages and camping grounds		the Ngati Mamoe	whakaputa nsubj	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mamoe=Source
2	say speech: assert	present	Tikao				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the fourth iwi		race or tribe appos	tree rules
4	occupy	to-infinitive	all front villages and camping grounds not said here	the			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus the=Experiencer

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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 29