Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 94
Huge quantities of sharks and other fish were caught in this manner, a fishing fashion which was only possible under the old tribal system, when the whole strength of the _hapu_ was available for such tasks.
Who acts: fishing fashion, whole strength · What happens: catch, be · To what, where: Huge quantities, manner, old tribal system
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 (fishing fashion, whole strength), 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 | Huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 quantities | amod |
| 2 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sharks | case |
| 4 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quantities | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fish | cc |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sharks | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux:pass |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 manner | det |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fashion | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fashion | det |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fashion | compound |
| 16 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 manner | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 possible | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 possible | cop |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 possible | advmod |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 system | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 system | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 system | amod |
| 24 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 system | amod |
| 25 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possible | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 available | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 available | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 strength | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 strength | amod |
| 30 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 available | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 hapu | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hapu | det |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 hapu | punct |
| 34 | hapu | hapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 strength | nmod |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 strength | punct |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 available | cop |
| 37 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fashion | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 tasks | case |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tasks | amod |
| 40 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 available | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | Huge quantities of sharks and other fish | this manner and a fishing fashion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a fishing fashion | the old tribal system | possible property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the whole strength of the hapu | for such tasks; available property | tree rules |
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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