Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 70
I have seen a war-dance party of Taupo Natives, more than a hundred strong, kilted with short _rapakis_ made of this lacebark, deftly twisted and woven by their womenfolk for the ceremonial leaping parade.
Who acts: I, ceremonial · What happens: see, kilt, make, twist, weave, leap · To what, where: dance party, hundred, short rapakis, lacebark, parade
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 (I, ceremonial), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 war | punct |
| 7 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 party | compound |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Natives | case |
| 10 | Taupo | Taupo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Natives | compound |
| 11 | Natives | Native | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 party | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kilted | punct |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 16 hundred | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 kilted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kilted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kilted | punct |
| 19 | kilted | kilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seen | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 rapakis | case |
| 21 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rapakis | amod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 short | punct |
| 23 | rapakis | rapaki | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kilted | obl |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rapakis | acl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 lacebark | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 lacebark | det |
| 28 | lacebark | lacebark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 twisted | punct |
| 30 | deftly | deftly | ADV | _ | 31 twisted | advmod |
| 31 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 lacebark | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 woven | cc |
| 33 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 twisted | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 womenfolk | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 womenfolk | nmod:poss |
| 36 | womenfolk | womenfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 woven | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 ceremonial | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ceremonial | det |
| 39 | ceremonial | ceremonial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 womenfolk | nmod |
| 40 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 ceremonial | acl |
| 41 | parade | parade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leaping | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | a dance party of Taupo Natives | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kilt | participle · passive | a hundred | with short rapakis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | short rapakis not said here | of this lacebark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | twist | participle | this lacebark not said here | deftly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | weave | participle | by Natives's womenfolk for the ceremonial | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by womenfolk=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | leap | gerund | the ceremonial not said here | parade | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parade=Trajectory |
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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