Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 74

And in its very shadow, when the sun westers, is a tangled grassy spot sacred to the memory of a heathen chief who would have none of the white man’s church or the white man’s beliefs.

Who acts: heathen chief, twisting, white man · What happens: be, spot, have, shadow, believe · To what, where: shadow, none

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 (heathen chief, twisting, white man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 grassy	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 shadow	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shadow	nmod:poss
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 shadow	advmod
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grassy	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 westers	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 westers	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 westers	compound
10	westers	wester	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shadow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shadow	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 grassy	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 grassy	det
14	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grassy	amod
15	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 grassy	ccomp
17	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spot	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 memory	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 memory	det
20	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sacred	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 chief	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chief	det
23	heathen	heathen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 chief	amod
24	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 memory	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 have	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 chief	acl:relcl
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 have	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 church	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 church	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 man	case
34	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 none	nmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 beliefs	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beliefs	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 man	case
40	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 none	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 grassy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			twisting's shadow and sun westers	grassy property	tree rules
2	spot	infinitive				sacred property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	have	would	a heathen chief	none of the white man's church the white man's beliefs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
4	shadow		twisting				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent
5	believe		the white man				nom belief «cognition 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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 74