Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 87
In about 1849-50, when the commander of a British surveying ship made the first survey of Lyttelton Harbour and named the landscape saliencies, his Maori interpreter asked the name of this sharp peak, whereupon our old savage claimed that it was named after himself, “Te Upoko-o-Mahuraki.”
Who acts: commander, Maori interpreter, old savage · What happens: survey, make, name, ask, claim · To what, where: first survey, 1849-50, landscape saliencies, name, Lyttelton Harbour, sharp peak · 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 (commander, Maori interpreter, old savage), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1849-50 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 1849-50 | advmod |
| 3 | 1849-50 | 1849-50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 made | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 commander | det |
| 7 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ship | amod |
| 11 | surveying | survey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ship | amod |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commander | nmod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 survey | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 survey | amod |
| 16 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Harbour | case |
| 18 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Harbour | compound |
| 19 | Harbour | Harbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 survey | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 named | cc |
| 21 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 saliencies | det |
| 23 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saliencies | compound |
| 24 | saliencies | saliency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 named | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 asked | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 interpreter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Maori | maori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 interpreter | amod |
| 28 | interpreter | interpreter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 asked | nsubj |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 name | det |
| 31 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 asked | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 peak | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 peak | det |
| 34 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 peak | amod |
| 35 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 name | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 claimed | punct |
| 37 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 claimed | advmod |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 savage | nmod:poss |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 savage | amod |
| 40 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 claimed | nsubj |
| 41 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 asked | conj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 named | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 named | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 named | aux:pass |
| 45 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 claimed | ccomp |
| 46 | after | after | ADP | _ | 47 himself | case |
| 47 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 45 named | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Te | punct |
| 49 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 Te | punct |
| 50 | Te | te | X | _ | 45 named | obl |
| 51 | Upoko | Upoko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Te | goeswith |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 Mahuraki | punct |
| 53 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 55 Mahuraki | case |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 o | punct |
| 55 | Mahuraki | Mahuraki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Upoko | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survey | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | the commander of a British surveying ship | the first survey of Lyttelton Harbour | 1849-50 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset survey=Product | |||
| 3 | name | past | the commander of a British surveying ship not said here | the landscape saliencies | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saliency=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | commander's Maori interpreter | the name of this sharp peak | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | claim speech: other | past | our old savage | whereupon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | name | past · passive | name | after commander | Te Upoko and Mahuraki obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 7 | survey | Lyttelton Harbour | nom survey «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | name | this sharp peak | 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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