Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 77
Often the missionaries besought him to become a Christian, but the grim old warlock scoffed at the Rongo Pai.
Who acts: missionaries · What happens: beseech, become, scoff · To what, where: Mahuraki, Christian, grim old warlock, Rongo Pai
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 (missionaries), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 4 besought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 missionaries | det |
| 3 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 besought | nsubj |
| 4 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 besought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 become | mark |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 besought | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Christian | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 become | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 warlock | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 warlock | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 warlock | det |
| 13 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 warlock | amod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 warlock | amod |
| 15 | warlock | warlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 besought | obl |
| 16 | scoffed | scoff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 warlock | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Pai | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Pai | det |
| 19 | Rongo | Rongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Pai | compound |
| 20 | Pai | Pai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 scoffed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | the missionaries | Mahuraki | the grim old warlock obl; often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | the missionaries not said here | a Christian | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient christian=Result | ||||
| 3 | scoff | participle | the grim old warlock not said here | the Rongo Pai | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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