Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 3
Like the other _hapus_ of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, the Ngati-Irakehu and their kin are now half-_pakeha_ in blood; they have intermarried with their European neighbours, and their little township, with its sixty odd souls, is scarcely to be taken at first sight for a Maori settlement.
Who acts: Ngati Irakehu, church, little township · What happens: be, intermarry, take · To what, where: pakeha, sight
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 (Ngati Irakehu, church, little township), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 5 hapus | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hapus | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hapus | amod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 other | punct |
| 5 | hapus | hapus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pakeha | obl |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 hapus | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tribe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tribe | det |
| 9 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tahu | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ngai | punct |
| 11 | Tahu | Tahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tribe | compound |
| 12 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hapus | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hapus | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Irakehu | det |
| 15 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Irakehu | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ngati | punct |
| 17 | Irakehu | Irakehu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 pakeha | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kin | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Irakehu | conj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pakeha | cop |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 pakeha | advmod |
| 23 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 pakeha | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 half | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 pakeha | punct |
| 26 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 pakeha | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 blood | case |
| 29 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 _ | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 intermarried | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 intermarried | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 intermarried | aux |
| 33 | intermarried | intermarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 pakeha | parataxis |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 neighbours | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 36 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 neighbours | amod |
| 37 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 intermarried | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 scarcely | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 scarcely | cc |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 township | nmod:poss |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 township | amod |
| 42 | township | township | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 scarcely | nsubj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 souls | punct |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 souls | case |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 souls | nmod:poss |
| 46 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 souls | nummod |
| 47 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 souls | amod |
| 48 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 township | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 township | punct |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 scarcely | cop |
| 51 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 intermarried | conj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 taken | mark |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 taken | aux:pass |
| 54 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 scarcely | advcl |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 57 sight | case |
| 56 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 57 sight | advmod |
| 57 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 taken | obl |
| 58 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 settlement | case |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 settlement | det |
| 60 | Maori | maori | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 settlement | compound |
| 61 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 taken | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 pakeha | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Ngati Irakehu and church's kin | pakeha | now | like the other hapus of the Tahu tribe; blood obl; half property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | intermarry | present · perfect | church | with church's European neighbours | vn amalgamate-22.2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with neighbour=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | church's little township and blood's sixty odd souls | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive · passive | church's little township and blood's sixty odd souls not said here | sight | for a Maori settlement | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for settlement=Beneficiary |
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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