Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 85
The _tohunga_ himself is by no means forgotten, for one of the names of yonder lofty arrowhead of a crag that overlords Rapaki is “Mahuraki’s Head.”
Who acts: _ tohunga, crag, one · What happens: be, forget, overlord, name · To what, where: Rapaki, Head, lofty arrowhead · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (_ tohunga, crag, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tohunga | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tohunga | amod |
| 3 | tohunga | tohunga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 himself | punct |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 tohunga | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | cop |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 no | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 means | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 Head | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 names | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 names | det |
| 16 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 arrowhead | case |
| 18 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 19 lofty | advmod |
| 19 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arrowhead | amod |
| 20 | arrowhead | arrowhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 names | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 crag | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 crag | det |
| 23 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrowhead | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 overlords | nsubj |
| 25 | overlords | overlord | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 crag | acl:relcl |
| 26 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 overlords | obj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Head | cop |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Head | punct |
| 29 | Mahuraki | Mahuraki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Mahuraki | case |
| 31 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgotten | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the _ tohunga Mahuraki | by no; mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | overlord | present | a crag | Rapaki | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | one of the names of lofty arrowhead of a crag | Mahuraki's Head | Mahuraki nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | name | lofty arrowhead of a crag | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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