Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 40
Te Raki (or Rangi) -whakaputa was of the Ngati-Kurii section of the tribe; Ngati-Kurii carried their conquest no further south than Kaikoura.
Who acts: Te, Ngati · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: conquest
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 (Te, Ngati), 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 | Te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 section | nsubj |
| 2 | Raki | Raki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Te | appos |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rangi | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 Rangi | cc |
| 5 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Raki | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rangi | punct |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 whakaputa | punct |
| 8 | whakaputa | whakaputa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Te | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 section | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 section | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 section | det |
| 12 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kurii | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ngati | punct |
| 14 | Kurii | Kurii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 section | compound |
| 15 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tribe | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tribe | det |
| 18 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 section | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 carried | punct |
| 20 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kurii | punct |
| 22 | Kurii | Kurii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ngati | flat |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 section | parataxis |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 conquest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | obj |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 further | advmod |
| 27 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 south | advmod |
| 28 | south | south | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 Kaikoura | case |
| 30 | Kaikoura | Kaikoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 south | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 section | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Te and whakaputa | of the Kurii section; of the tribe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Ngati | Ngati's conquest | south property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Theme |
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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