Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 32
And this Homeric figure of two centuries ago, great of stature and terrible in fight, had a son whose name is scarcely less famous in the little-written traditions of the conquest of the Whanga-Raupo.
Who acts: Homeric figure, son · What happens: have, be, write, figure · To what, where: written traditions, little, two centuries
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 (Homeric figure, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 figure | det |
| 3 | Homeric | homeric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 figure | amod |
| 4 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 centuries | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 centuries | nummod |
| 7 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 figure | nmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 centuries | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 great | punct |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 figure | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stature | case |
| 12 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 great | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 terrible | cc |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 great | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fight | case |
| 16 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 terrible | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 figure | punct |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 son | det |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 famous | nsubj |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 name | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 famous | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 famous | cop |
| 24 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 25 less | advmod |
| 25 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 famous | advmod |
| 26 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 had | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 traditions | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 traditions | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 written | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 little | punct |
| 31 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 traditions | amod |
| 32 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 famous | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 conquest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 conquest | det |
| 35 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 traditions | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Raupo | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Raupo | det |
| 38 | Whanga | Whanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Raupo | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Whanga | punct |
| 40 | Raupo | Raupo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 conquest | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this Homeric figure of two centuries | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a son | the written traditions of the conquest of the Whanga Raupo | name nsubj; famous, less property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | write | participle | little | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | figure | two centuries | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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