Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 41
From there southward is the conquest of Ngai-Tuhai-tara.
What happens: be · To what, where: conquest, southward
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 southward | case |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 southward | expl |
| 3 | southward | southward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquest | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 conquest | det |
| 6 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ngai | case |
| 8 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 conquest | nmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tuhai | punct |
| 10 | Tuhai | Tuhai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ngai | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tara | punct |
| 12 | tara | tara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ngai | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the conquest | southward there | of Ngai and Tuhai | tree rules |
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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