Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 12
A venerable name this, for it is quite six hundred years old and is a connecting link with the greatest land-explorer in Maori-Polynesian story, a prototype of the adventurous “Kai-ruri,” the white surveyor of _pakeha_ pioneering days.
Who acts: this, venerable name · What happens: name, be, connect, pioneer · To what, where: connecting link
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 (this, venerable name), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | nsubj |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 name | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 hundred | advmod |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 old | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 link | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 link | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 link | det |
| 17 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 link | amod |
| 18 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 explorer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 explorer | det |
| 21 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 explorer | amod |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 explorer | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 land | punct |
| 24 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 link | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Maori | case |
| 26 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 explorer | nmod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Maori | punct |
| 28 | Polynesian | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Maori | flat |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 link | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 prototype | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 prototype | det |
| 32 | prototype | prototype | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 link | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ruri | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ruri | det |
| 35 | adventurous | adventurous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ruri | amod |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 ruri | punct |
| 37 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 ruri | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Kai | punct |
| 39 | ruri | ruri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prototype | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 surveyor | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 surveyor | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 surveyor | det |
| 43 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 surveyor | amod |
| 44 | surveyor | surveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | parataxis |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 pakeha | case |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 of | punct |
| 47 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 surveyor | nmod |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 pioneering | punct |
| 49 | pioneering | pioneer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 surveyor | conj |
| 50 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 pioneering | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | this | for name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a venerable name | year | the white surveyor of pakeha parataxis; old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | connect | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | a venerable name not said here | a connecting link and story and a prototype of the adventurous Kai ruri | with the greatest land explorer in Maori; story conj; a prototype of the adventurous Kai ruri conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pioneer | gerund | a venerable name not said here | day | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
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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