Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 83
Mahuraki died sixty years ago and was buried in a hole dug in the floor of his thatched hut, which was left to decay.
Who acts: Mahuraki, thatched hut · What happens: die, bury, dig, thatch, leave, decay · To what, where: hole, floor, thatched hut
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, thatched hut), 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 | Mahuraki | Mahuraki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 died | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 buried | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 buried | aux:pass |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 died | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hole | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buried | obl |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hole | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hut | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hut | amod |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 left | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hut | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 decay | mark |
| 25 | decay | decay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 left | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Mahuraki | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bury | past · passive | Mahuraki not said here | a hole | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in hole=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dig | participle | a hole not said here | the floor of Mahuraki's thatched hut | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in floor=Location | ||||
| 4 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | Mahuraki's thatched hut | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | decay | to-infinitive | Mahuraki's thatched hut not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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