Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 69
The early colonists have been known to use it for the trimming of ladies’ hats and bonnets.
What happens: know, use, trim · To what, where: early colonists, pakeha, hats
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: 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 | 3 colonists | det |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colonists | amod |
| 3 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 known | aux:pass |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 use | mark |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 known | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 use | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 trimming | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trimming | det |
| 12 | trimming | trimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hats | case |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hats | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 ladies | case |
| 16 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trimming | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bonnets | cc |
| 18 | bonnets | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hats | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect · passive | the early colonists | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | pakeha | for the trimming of ladies's hats and bonnets | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for trimming=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | trim | ladies's hats and bonnets | nom trimming «act transitive»: of=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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