Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 78
“Hu!” he grunted, “what is your Karaiti?
Who acts: Hu · What happens: grunt, be · To what, where: Karaiti
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 (Hu), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hu | punct |
| 2 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grunted | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hu | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hu | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grunted | nsubj |
| 6 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Karaiti | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Karaiti | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 Karaiti | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Karaiti | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Karaiti | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Karaiti | Karaiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grunted | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 grunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | past | Hu | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | your Karaiti | what nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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