Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 76
He was exceedingly _tapu_, steeped in wizardry and mysticism.
Who acts: Mahuraki, _ tapu · What happens: be, steep · To what, where: _ tapu
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 (Mahuraki, _ tapu), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tapu | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tapu | cop |
| 3 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 4 _ | advmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tapu | amod |
| 5 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 tapu | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 steeped | punct |
| 8 | steeped | steep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tapu | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wizardry | case |
| 10 | wizardry | wizardry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steeped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mysticism | cc |
| 12 | mysticism | mysticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wizardry | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tapu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mahuraki | _ tapu | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steep | past | _ tapu not said here | in wizardry and mysticism | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in wizardry=Instrument |
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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