Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 86
The original name, as we have seen, is Te Poho-o-Tamatea, which means “Tamatea’s Breast,” so named by this barefooted pioneer of Maori land surveyors by way of claiming the land for his tribespeople.
Who acts: we, original name, Te, land · What happens: see, be, mean, name, claim · To what, where: original name, Te, Breast, way
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 (we, original name, Te, land), 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 name | det |
| 2 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Te | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 name | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Te | cop |
| 11 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | Poho | Poho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Te | flat |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tamatea | punct |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 Tamatea | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 o | punct |
| 16 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Te | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Te | parataxis |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Breast | punct |
| 21 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Breast | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Tamatea | case |
| 23 | Breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Breast | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Breast | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 named | advmod |
| 27 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 means | advcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 pioneer | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 pioneer | det |
| 30 | barefooted | barefooted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pioneer | amod |
| 31 | pioneer | pioneer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 named | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 surveyors | case |
| 33 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 surveyors | compound |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 surveyors | compound |
| 35 | surveyors | surveyor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pioneer | nmod |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 named | obl |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 claiming | mark |
| 39 | claiming | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 way | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 land | det |
| 41 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 claiming | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 tribespeople | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 tribespeople | nmod:poss |
| 44 | tribespeople | tribespeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 claiming | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Te | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | we | the original name not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the original name | Te and Tamatea | Tamatea conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | present | Te and Tamatea | Tamatea's Breast | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Topic | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | Te and Tamatea not said here | by this barefooted pioneer of Maori land surveyors; by way | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | claim speech: other | gerund | the land | way not said here | for Tamatea's tribespeople | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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