Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 42
The second daughter of Te Rakiwhakaputa was the wife of Tu-Rakautahi, the founder of Kaiapoi Pa, so Te Rakiwhakaputa came to Kaiapoi after the settlement of the Ngai-Tuhaitara, here accompanied by other Ngati-Kurii chieftains, namely, Mako, Te Ruahikihiki and others, and dwelt in the vicinity of Kaiapoi for some time.
Who acts: second daughter, Te · What happens: be, come, accompany, dwell · To what, where: wife, Kaiapoi, vicinity
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 (second daughter, Te), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Te | case |
| 5 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | nmod |
| 6 | Rakiwhakaputa | Rakiwhakaputa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Te | flat |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wife | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Tu | case |
| 11 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rakautahi | punct |
| 13 | Rakautahi | Rakautahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tu | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 founder | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 founder | det |
| 16 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tu | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kaiapoi | case |
| 18 | Kaiapoi | Kaiapoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 founder | nmod |
| 19 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kaiapoi | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 22 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 23 | Rakiwhakaputa | Rakiwhakaputa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Te | flat |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wife | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Kaiapoi | case |
| 26 | Kaiapoi | Kaiapoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 settlement | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 settlement | det |
| 29 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Tuhaitara | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Tuhaitara | det |
| 32 | Ngai | Ngai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Tuhaitara | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ngai | punct |
| 34 | Tuhaitara | Tuhaitara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 settlement | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 accompanied | punct |
| 36 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 accompanied | advmod |
| 37 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wife | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 Ngati | case |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Ngati | amod |
| 40 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 accompanied | obl |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Ngati | punct |
| 42 | Kurii | Kurii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Ngati | flat |
| 43 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Ngati | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 namely | punct |
| 45 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 chieftains | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Mako | punct |
| 47 | Mako | Mako | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Ngati | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Te | punct |
| 49 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Ngati | appos |
| 50 | Ruahikihiki | Ruahikihiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Te | flat |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 others | cc |
| 52 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Ngati | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 dwelt | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 dwelt | cc |
| 55 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wife | conj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 vicinity | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 vicinity | det |
| 58 | vicinity | vicinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dwelt | obl |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 Kaiapoi | case |
| 60 | Kaiapoi | Kaiapoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 vicinity | nmod |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 63 time | case |
| 62 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 63 time | det |
| 63 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dwelt | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the second daughter of Te | the wife | of Tu and Rakautahi | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Te | Kaiapoi | after the settlement of the Ngai Tuhaitara | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kaiapoi=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | accompany | participle | the second daughter of Te not said here | here | by other Ngati and chieftains and Mako and others | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by ngati=Destination | |||
| 4 | dwell | past | the second daughter of Te not said here | the vicinity of Kaiapoi | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vicinity=Location |
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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