Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 91
It was a rambling _korero_, wandering deviously from _pakeha_ times into romantic ancientry, when the wild men lived in the woods and when war canoes filled with fierce tattooed eaters of men swept up and down this shining harbour of ours.
Who acts: sun, wild men, men · What happens: ramble, wonder, live, fill, tattoo, sweep up · To what, where: korero, pakeha, woods, war canoes, shining harbour
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 (sun, wild men, men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rambling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rambling | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rambling | det |
| 4 | rambling | ramble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 korero | punct |
| 6 | korero | korero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rambling | obj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 korero | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandering | punct |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rambling | conj |
| 10 | deviously | deviously | ADV | _ | 9 wandering | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 pakeha | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 from | punct |
| 13 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 times | punct |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wandering | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 ancientry | case |
| 17 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ancientry | amod |
| 18 | ancientry | ancientry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lived | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 lived | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 men | det |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rambling | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 woods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woods | det |
| 27 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lived | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 filled | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 filled | advmod |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 canoes | compound |
| 31 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lived | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 eaters | case |
| 34 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 eaters | amod |
| 35 | tattooed | tattoo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 eaters | amod |
| 36 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 filled | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 men | case |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 swept | nsubj |
| 39 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 eaters | acl:relcl |
| 40 | up | up | ADV | _ | 39 swept | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 down | cc |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 40 up | conj |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 harbour | det |
| 44 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 harbour | amod |
| 45 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 swept | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 ours | case |
| 47 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 harbour | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rambling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ramble | past · progressive | sun | korero | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location korero=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | sun not said here | pakeha | time | into romantic ancientry; deviously property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | live | past | the wild men | the woods | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle · passive | war canoes | with fierce tattooed eaters | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with eater=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | tattoo | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | sweep up | past | men | this shining harbour of ours | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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