Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 24
The Takitimu, being a _tapu_ canoe, carried no cooked food, and the only plants the people brought in her were ornamental ones, for scent and beauty and sweet flowers.
Who acts: Takitimu, only plants · What happens: be, carry, not cook, bring · To what, where: _ tapu, cooked food
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 (Takitimu, only plants), 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 Takitimu | det |
| 2 | Takitimu | Takitimu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tapu | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tapu | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tapu | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tapu | amod |
| 7 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Takitimu | appos |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 canoe | punct |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tapu | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Takitimu | punct |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 cooked | advmod |
| 13 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 food | amod |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plants | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plants | amod |
| 19 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 ones | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ones | nmod:poss |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ones | cop |
| 26 | ornamental | ornamental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ones | amod |
| 27 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 scent | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 scent | case |
| 30 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ones | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beauty | cc |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scent | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flowers | cc |
| 34 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flowers | amod |
| 35 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 beauty | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a _ tapu and canoe | canoe conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the Takitimu | cooked food | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | bring | past | the only plants | the people nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | in Takitimu's ornamental ones and scent and beauty and sweet flowers; Takitimu nmod:poss; scent and beauty and sweet flowers conj | 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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