Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 25
She was a great double canoe, and could carry two hundred people.
Who acts: Takitimu · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: great double canoe, hundred people
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 canoe | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 canoe | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 canoe | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 canoe | amod |
| 5 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 canoe | amod |
| 6 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carry | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 canoe | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hundred | compound |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 people | nummod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 canoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Takitimu | a great double canoe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | Takitimu not said here | hundred people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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