Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 29
(A seam of lignite is said to have been found burning in the locality by the early settlers and explorers, and this the Maoris identified with the Hawaikian sorcerer’s magic blaze.)
Who acts: Maoris, Hawaikian sorcerer · What happens: say, find, burn, identify, blaze · To what, where: seam, locality · 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 (Maoris, Hawaikian sorcerer), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 seam | det |
| 3 | seam | seam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lignite | case |
| 5 | lignite | lignite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seam | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 locality | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 locality | det |
| 15 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burning | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 settlers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 settlers | det |
| 18 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 settlers | amod |
| 19 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burning | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 explorers | cc |
| 21 | explorers | explorer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 settlers | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 identified | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 identified | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 the | nsubj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Maoris | det |
| 26 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 identified | nsubj |
| 27 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 blaze | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sorcerer | det |
| 30 | Hawaikian | hawaikian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sorcerer | amod |
| 31 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blaze | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 sorcerer | case |
| 33 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blaze | compound |
| 34 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 identified | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | a seam of lignite | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | the locality | by the early settlers and explorers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in locality=Location | ||||
| 4 | identify | past | the Maoris | with the Hawaikian sorcerer's magic blaze | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with blaze=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | blaze | the Hawaikian sorcerer | nom blaze «process intransitive»: poss=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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