Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 73
The church itself, as he remembered, was built in 1869 by the Wesleyan Natives, but the Anglicans used it also, for in those days there was no _puhaehae_, no violent jealousy of sects.
Who acts: church, Wesleyan Natives, Anglicans · What happens: remember, build, use · To what, where: violent jealousy, twisting
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 (church, Wesleyan Natives, Anglicans), 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 church | det |
| 2 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 church | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 remembered | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 remembered | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1869 | case |
| 12 | 1869 | 1869 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 built | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Natives | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Natives | det |
| 15 | Wesleyan | Wesleyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Natives | compound |
| 16 | Natives | Native | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 built | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 used | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Anglicans | det |
| 20 | Anglicans | Anglican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 used | nsubj |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remembered | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 used | obj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 used | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 days | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 days | det |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 used | obl |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 was | expl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 days | acl:relcl |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 was | obj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 puhaehae | punct |
| 33 | puhaehae | puhaehae | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 days | conj |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 days | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 jealousy | punct |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 jealousy | det |
| 37 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 jealousy | amod |
| 38 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sects | case |
| 40 | sects | sect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 jealousy | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the church twisting | no violent jealousy of sects | Tikao nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | the Wesleyan Natives | in 1869 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1869=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | use | past | the Anglicans | twisting | day | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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