Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 22
Now, Tamatea had carried with him, in a section of a hollow _rata_ log, as was the fashion of the Maori, a smouldering fire for his nightly camps.
What happens: carry, be, section · To what, where: Tamatea, section, hollow _ rata
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 carried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 section | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 section | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 section | det |
| 11 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rata | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rata | det |
| 14 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rata | amod |
| 15 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rata | compound |
| 16 | rata | rata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 section | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 log | punct |
| 18 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rata | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fashion | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 fashion | case |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fashion | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fashion | det |
| 23 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Maori | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Maori | det |
| 26 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 fashion | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fire | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fire | det |
| 29 | smouldering | smouldering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fire | compound |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Maori | appos |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 camps | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 camps | nmod:poss |
| 33 | nightly | nightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 camps | amod |
| 34 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fire | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · perfect · passive | Tamatea | a section of a hollow _ rata and log | now | with Canterbury | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in section=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | as the fashion; of the Maori | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | section | a hollow _ rata and log | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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