Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 96
But those enormous _kupengas_ will never again be hauled through the fish-teeming waters.
What happens: haul, teem · To what, where: enormous kupengas, teeming waters
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hauled | cc |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 kupengas | det |
| 3 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kupengas | amod |
| 4 | _ | _ | X | _ | 3 enormous | flat |
| 5 | kupengas | kupenga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hauled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 kupengas | punct |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hauled | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 again | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 hauled | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hauled | aux:pass |
| 11 | hauled | haul | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 waters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waters | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teeming | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fish | punct |
| 16 | teeming | teem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 waters | amod |
| 17 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hauled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hauled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul | future · passive | that enormous kupengas | the teeming waters | again; never | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | teem | gerund | fish compound | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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