Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 68
It takes its _pakeha_ name from the peculiar characteristics of the inner bark, which is tough and strong of fibre and beautifully netted and perforated.
Who acts: It, inner bark · What happens: take, be, net, perforate · To what, where: _ pakeha, peculiar characteristics
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 (It, inner bark), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pakeha | nmod:poss |
| 4 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pakeha | amod |
| 5 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 characteristics | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 characteristics | det |
| 10 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 characteristics | compound |
| 11 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bark | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bark | det |
| 14 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bark | amod |
| 15 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 characteristics | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tough | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tough | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tough | cop |
| 19 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bark | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tough | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fibre | case |
| 23 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strong | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 netted | cc |
| 25 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 26 netted | advmod |
| 26 | netted | net | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tough | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 perforated | cc |
| 28 | perforated | perforate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 netted | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | It | North's _ pakeha | the peculiar characteristics of the inner bark | name obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pakeha=Theme from characteristic=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | the inner bark | tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the inner bark not said here | of fibre | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | net | participle | the inner bark not said here | beautifully property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | perforate | participle | the inner bark not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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