Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 92
The _Kaumatua_, describing the old industrious age of his people, told by way of example of the tribal communistic energies how great flax nets fully a quarter of a mile long used to be made for the catching of the shark in this sea arm.
Who acts: Kaumatua · What happens: describe, tell, use, make, exemplify · To what, where: old industrious age, people, mile, Kaumatua, tribal communistic energies · 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 (Kaumatua), 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 Kaumatua | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kaumatua | punct |
| 3 | Kaumatua | Kaumatua | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kaumatua | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 describing | punct |
| 6 | describing | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Kaumatua | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 age | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 age | amod |
| 9 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 age | amod |
| 10 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 describing | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 age | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 people | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 example | case |
| 19 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 energies | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 energies | det |
| 22 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 energies | amod |
| 23 | communistic | communistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 energies | amod |
| 24 | energies | energy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 example | nmod |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 great | advmod |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nets | amod |
| 27 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nets | compound |
| 28 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 energies | appos |
| 29 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 31 quarter | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 quarter | det |
| 31 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nets | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 mile | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mile | det |
| 34 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quarter | nmod |
| 35 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 used | advmod |
| 36 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 mile | acl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 made | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 made | aux:pass |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 used | xcomp |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 catching | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 catching | det |
| 42 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 shark | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shark | det |
| 45 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 catching | nmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 arm | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 arm | det |
| 48 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 arm | compound |
| 49 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shark | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kaumatua | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | gerund | the Kaumatua not said here | the old industrious age of kaumatua's people | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent age=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | kaumatua's people not said here | by way of example of the tribal communistic energies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | a mile not said here | long property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive · passive | for the catching of the shark in this sea arm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for catching=Asset | |||||
| 6 | exemplify | the tribal communistic energies | nom example «cognition 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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