Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 50

As Moki, the younger brother of Tu Rakautahi, headed the Ngai-Tuhaitara clan who conquered the Peninsula, you will readily perceive that no chief would deliberately go and settle on the territory of another, and particularly one so powerful as Tu-Rakautahi, without his permission--which in this case was given--and without tribute being paid annually for the privilege.

Who acts: Ngai Tuhaitara clan, you, chief · What happens: head, conquer, perceive, go, settle, give · To what, where: Ngai Tuhaitara clan, Peninsula, permission, case

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 (Ngai Tuhaitara clan, you, chief), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 Moki	case
2	Moki	Moki	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 headed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Moki	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Tu	case
8	Tu	Tu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 brother	nmod
9	Rakautahi	Rakautahi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tu	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Moki	punct
11	headed	head	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clan	det
13	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 clan	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Ngai	punct
15	Tuhaitara	Tuhaitara	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 clan	compound
16	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 headed	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 conquered	nsubj
18	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 clan	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Peninsula	det
20	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 conquered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 perceive	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 perceive	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 perceive	aux
24	readily	readily	ADV	_	25 perceive	advmod
25	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 headed	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 chief	det
28	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
30	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 perceive	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 settle	cc
33	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 go	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 territory	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 territory	det
36	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 settle	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 another	case
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 territory	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 powerful	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 powerful	cc
41	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	42 one	advmod
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 powerful	nsubj
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 powerful	advmod
44	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 headed	conj
45	as	as	ADP	_	48 Rakautahi	case
46	Tu	Tu	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Rakautahi	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 Tu	punct
48	Rakautahi	Rakautahi	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 powerful	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 permission	punct
50	without	without	ADP	_	52 permission	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 permission	nmod:poss
52	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 headed	conj
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	59 given	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 given	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 case	case
56	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 case	det
57	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 given	obl
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 given	aux:pass
59	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 permission	parataxis
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	65 paid	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 paid	cc
62	without	without	ADP	_	63 tribute	case
63	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 paid	obl
64	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	65 paid	aux:pass
65	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 given	conj
66	annually	annually	ADV	_	65 paid	advmod
67	for	for	ADP	_	69 privilege	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 privilege	det
69	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 paid	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 headed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	head	past		the Ngai Tuhaitara clan		as Moki; chief's permission conj	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clan=Theme
2	conquer	past	the Ngai Tuhaitara clan	the Peninsula			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peninsula=Patient
3	perceive	future	you			readily property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	would	no chief			deliberately property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	settle	infinitive	no chief not said here			on the territory of another	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on territory=Topic
6	give	past · passive		chief's permission	this case		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme
7	pay	gerund · passive				without tribute; for the privilege; annually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: for privilege=Theme
8	permit		chief				nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 50

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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 50