Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 55
The mat-kilted conquistador of old who gave his name to the place had an eye for a secure, well-hidden site for his _pa_.
Who acts: kilted conquistador, conquistador · What happens: kilt, give, have, hide, name · To what, where: name, place, eye
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 (kilted conquistador, conquistador), 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 | 5 conquistador | det |
| 2 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kilted | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 mat | punct |
| 4 | kilted | kilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 conquistador | amod |
| 5 | conquistador | conquistador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 old | case |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 conquistador | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conquistador | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 eye | det |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 site | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 site | det |
| 20 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 site | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 secure | punct |
| 22 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 25 site | discourse |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 well | punct |
| 24 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 site | amod |
| 25 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 pa | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pa | nmod:poss |
| 28 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pa | amod |
| 29 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 site | nmod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kilt | participle | mat compound | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the kilted conquistador of old | conquistador's name | the place | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to place=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | past | the kilted conquistador of old | a eye | for a secure hidden site for conquistador's _ pa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | conquistador | nom name «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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