Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 17
Legend, too, says that Tamatea settled awhile at the foot of the Canoe Mountains, and that he had a camp village at the lower end of Lake Te Anau, where eels and birds were abundant.
Who acts: Legend, Tamatea, eels · What happens: say, settle, have, be · To what, where: foot, camp village, lower end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Legend, Tamatea, eels), 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 | Legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Legend | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Legend | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Legend | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 settled | mark |
| 7 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 settled | nsubj |
| 8 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 8 settled | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 settled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mountains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mountains | det |
| 15 | Canoe | Canoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mountains | compound |
| 16 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 foot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 village | det |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 village | compound |
| 24 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 27 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 end | amod |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Anau | case |
| 30 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Anau | compound |
| 31 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Anau | compound |
| 32 | Anau | Anau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 abundant | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 abundant | advmod |
| 35 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 abundant | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 birds | cc |
| 37 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 eels | conj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 abundant | cop |
| 39 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Anau | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Legend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | settle | past | Tamatea | the foot of the Canoe Mountains | awhile property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | Tamatea | a camp village | at the lower end of Lake Te Anau | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | eels and birds | abundant 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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