Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 38

[Footnote 3: The following note describing the occupation of these localities after the first conflict between the two great tribes of the South Island was written by Mr. T. E. Green (Tame Kirini) of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, who died in 1917, and who was an authority on the history of his mother’s clan:--

Who acts: following note, Tame Kirini · What happens: follow, describe, write, die, be, occupy · To what, where: occupation, Footnote, authority, history, localities

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 (following note, Tame Kirini), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 written	nsubj:pass
3	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Footnote	flat
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 note	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 note	det
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 note	amod
7	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Footnote	conj
8	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 note	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 occupation	det
10	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 localities	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 localities	det
13	localities	locality	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 occupation	nmod
14	after	after	ADP	_	17 conflict	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 conflict	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 conflict	amod
17	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describing	obl
18	between	between	ADP	_	22 tribes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tribes	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 tribes	nummod
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tribes	amod
22	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 conflict	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Island	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Island	det
25	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Island	compound
26	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tribes	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 written	aux:pass
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 Green	case
30	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 T.	nmod:desc
31	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Green	compound
32	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Green	compound
33	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 written	obl
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 Kirini	punct
35	Tame	Tame	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Kirini	compound
36	Kirini	Kirini	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Green	conj
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 Kirini	punct
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Tuahiwi	case
39	Tuahiwi	Tuahiwi	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Kirini	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Kaiapoi	punct
41	Kaiapoi	Kaiapoi	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Kirini	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 died	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 died	nsubj
44	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 Kirini	acl:relcl
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 1917	case
46	1917	1917	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	44 died	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 authority	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 authority	cc
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 authority	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 authority	cop
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 authority	det
52	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 written	obl
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 history	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 history	det
55	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 authority	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	60 clan	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 mother	nmod:poss
58	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 clan	nmod:poss
59	’s	's	PART	_	58 mother	case
60	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 history	nmod
61	:	:	PUNCT	_	62 --	punct
62	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 written	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	gerund	the following note not said here	the occupation of this localities		after the first conflict between the two great tribes of the South Island		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occupation=Theme
3	write	past · passive		Footnote and the following note			by T. E. Green and Tame Kirini of Tuahiwi and Kaiapoi	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	die	past	Tame Kirini of Tuahiwi and Kaiapoi				in 1917	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1917=Attribute
5	is a	past		a authority	the history of Kaiapoi's mother's clan		who nsubj	tree rules
6	occupy			this localities				nom occupation «act 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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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 38