Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 67
The Maoris of the north call it _whauwhi_ and _houhere_, here it is _houhi_ or _houi_.
Who acts: Maoris · What happens: call, be · To what, where: North, houhi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Maoris), 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 | 2 Maoris | det |
| 2 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 call | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 north | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 north | det |
| 5 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Maoris | nmod |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 whauwhi | punct |
| 9 | whauwhi | whauwhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | xcomp |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 whauwhi | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 houhere | cc |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 houhere | punct |
| 13 | houhere | houhere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whauwhi | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 call | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 houhi | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 houhi | cop |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 houhi | punct |
| 20 | houhi | houhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 here | conj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 houhi | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 houi | cc |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 houi | punct |
| 24 | houi | houi | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 here | conj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 houi | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Maoris of the north | North | whauwhi and houhere xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Maoris | houhi | 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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