Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 34
He called to his elder relative, Ngatoro-i-Rangi, and to the guardians of the Ahi-Tipua, the volcanic fires.
Who acts: karakia · What happens: call · To what, where: elder relative · 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 (karakia), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 relative | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 relative | nmod:poss |
| 5 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relative | compound |
| 6 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ngatoro | punct |
| 8 | Ngatoro | Ngatoro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 relative | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rangi | punct |
| 10 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Rangi | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rangi | punct |
| 12 | Rangi | Rangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ngatoro | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 guardians | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 guardians | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 guardians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guardians | det |
| 17 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ahi | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ahi | det |
| 20 | Ahi | Ahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 guardians | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tipua | punct |
| 22 | Tipua | Tipua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ahi | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fires | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fires | det |
| 25 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fires | amod |
| 26 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Ahi | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | karakia | karakia's elder relative | the guardians of the Ahi and Tipua and the volcanic fires parataxis | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to relative=Recipient |
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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