Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 30
But it seems that Tamatea’s fire so carefully tended by the gods went out as he travelled slowly up the hills from Otago, and none had been kindled again when he reached the Port Hills.
Who acts: it, gods, Maoris, Tamatea · What happens: seem, tend, go out, travel, kindle, reach · To what, where: fire, hills, none, Port Hills
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 (it, gods, Maoris, Tamatea), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 seems | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 fire | mark |
| 5 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fire | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Tamatea | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 tended | advmod |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 tended | advmod |
| 10 | tended | tend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seems | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tended | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 travelled | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 travelled | nsubj |
| 18 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | advcl |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 travelled | advmod |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 hills | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hills | det |
| 22 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 travelled | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Otago | case |
| 24 | Otago | Otago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hills | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kindled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kindled | cc |
| 27 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 kindled | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 kindled | aux:pass |
| 30 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tended | conj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 kindled | advmod |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 reached | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 reached | nsubj |
| 34 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 kindled | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Hills | det |
| 36 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Hills | compound |
| 37 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 reached | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | it | Tamatea's fire | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tend | participle | carefully property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | the gods | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | travel | past | Maoris | the hills from Otago | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up hill=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | kindle | past · perfect · passive | none | again | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | reach | past | Maoris | the Port Hills | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fire | Tamatea | nom fire «event transitive»: 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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