Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 39
“The Ngati-Mamoe were subdued by the Ngai-Tuhaitara section of the Ngai-Tahu tribe under Moki, an account of whose expedition is given in Canon J. W. Stack’s contribution to “Tales of Banks Peninsula.”
Who acts: Tuhaitara section, W., Banks Peninsula · What happens: subdue, give, section, account, contribute, tell · To what, where: Ngati Mamoe, Tahu tribe, expedition · 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 (Tuhaitara section, W., Banks Peninsula), 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 | _ | 7 subdued | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mamoe | det |
| 3 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mamoe | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mamoe | punct |
| 5 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 subdued | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 subdued | aux:pass |
| 7 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 given | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 section | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 section | det |
| 10 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tuhaitara | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ngai | punct |
| 12 | Tuhaitara | Tuhaitara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 section | compound |
| 13 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 subdued | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tribe | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tribe | det |
| 16 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tahu | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ngai | punct |
| 18 | Tahu | Tahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tribe | compound |
| 19 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 section | nmod |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 Moki | case |
| 21 | Moki | Moki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tribe | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 account | punct |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 account | det |
| 24 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tribe | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 expedition | case |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 27 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 account | nmod |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux:pass |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Canon | case |
| 31 | Canon | Canon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 given | obl |
| 32 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Canon | flat |
| 33 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 contribution | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Stack | Stack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 W. | flat |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 W. | case |
| 36 | contribution | contribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Canon | appos |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Tales | case |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Tales | punct |
| 39 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 contribution | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Peninsula | case |
| 41 | Banks | Banks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Peninsula | compound |
| 42 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Tales | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subdue in a quote | past · passive | the Tuhaitara section of the Tahu tribe under Moki and a account of a account of expedition's expedition | the Ngati Mamoe | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · passive | in Canon | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | section in a quote | the Tahu tribe under Moki and a account of a account of expedition's expedition | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | account in a quote | a account of a account of expedition's expedition's expedition | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | contribute in a quote | W. | to Tales of Banks Peninsula | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 6 | tell | Banks Peninsula | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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