Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 49
“Now this is what the present generation living at these places object to, the idea that their ancestors were sent there to procure food supplies for Kaiapoi.
Who acts: this, present generation, idea · What happens: be, live, send, procure · To what, where: places object, ancestors, food supplies
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 (this, present generation, idea), 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 | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 what | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 generation | det |
| 7 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 generation | amod |
| 8 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 generation | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 object | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 object | det |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 object | compound |
| 13 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 object | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 idea | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 idea | det |
| 17 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 object | appos |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sent | mark |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux:pass |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 idea | acl |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 sent | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 procure | mark |
| 25 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sent | advcl |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 supplies | compound |
| 27 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 procure | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Kaiapoi | case |
| 29 | Kaiapoi | Kaiapoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 supplies | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | the present generation; now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | the present generation not said here | this places object | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at object=Location | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | past · passive | the idea not said here | Kiri's ancestors | there | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | procure in a quote | to-infinitive | the idea not said here | food supplies | for Kaiapoi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supplies=Theme for kaiapoi=Beneficiary |
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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