Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 11
The peak of “Tamatea’s Breast,” is one of the very few landscape saliencies in these parts which still remain in the hands of the people of Takitimu descent.
Who acts: peak, few · What happens: be, landscape, remain · To what, where: one, saliencies, parts, hands
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peak, few), 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 | 2 peak | det |
| 2 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Breast | case |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Breast | punct |
| 5 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Breast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Tamatea | case |
| 7 | Breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peak | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 peak | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 peak | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 landscape | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 few | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 few | advmod |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 landscape | nsubj |
| 16 | landscape | landscape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | advcl |
| 17 | saliencies | saliency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 landscape | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 parts | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 parts | det |
| 20 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 landscape | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 remain | obj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 remain | advmod |
| 23 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 parts | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hands | det |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 remain | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hands | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 descent | case |
| 31 | Takitimu | Takitimu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 descent | compound |
| 32 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 people | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the peak of Tamatea's Breast | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | landscape | present | the few | saliencies | this parts | tree rules | |||
| 3 | remain | present | this parts | the hands of the people of Takitimu descent | still | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute |
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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