Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 72
That is the tree that extends its Maori _mana tapu_ and its twisting flowery branches over the village church, with a little spire like an old-time candle extinguisher, and it was under its shade that Tikao told something of the past of these parts.
Who acts: That, tree, twisting, Tikao, tapu · What happens: be, extend, branch, tell, twist · To what, where: tree, Maori, village church, shade · 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 (That, tree, twisting, Tikao), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 extends | nsubj |
| 6 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | acl:relcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Maori | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 extends | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 tapu | punct |
| 10 | mana | mana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tapu | compound |
| 11 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Maori | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 extends | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 branches | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 twisting | nmod:poss |
| 15 | twisting | twisting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 branches | nsubj |
| 16 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 branches | amod |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 extends | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 church | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 church | compound |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extends | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spire | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 spire | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spire | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spire | amod |
| 26 | spire | spire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extends | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 extinguisher | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 extinguisher | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 time | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 old | punct |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 extinguisher | compound |
| 32 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 extinguisher | compound |
| 33 | extinguisher | extinguisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spire | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shade | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shade | cc |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 shade | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 shade | cop |
| 38 | under | under | ADP | _ | 40 shade | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 shade | nmod:poss |
| 40 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 told | obj |
| 42 | Tikao | Tikao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 told | nsubj |
| 43 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 shade | acl:relcl |
| 44 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 told | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 past | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 past | det |
| 47 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 something | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 parts | case |
| 49 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 parts | det |
| 50 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 past | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the tree and twisting's shade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | extend | present | the tree and twisting's shade | tree's Maori | the village church | a little spire like a time candle extinguisher conj | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent maori=Theme | ||
| 3 | branch | tapu's twisting | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | twisting | twisting's shade | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Tikao | twisting's shade | something of the past of this parts obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 6 | twist | tapu | nom twisting «act 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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