Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 39
And the volcanic fire itself is “Te Ahi-a-Tamatea.”
Who acts: volcanic fire · What happens: be · To what, where: Te Ahi
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 (volcanic fire), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Ahi | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 3 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fire | amod |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahi | nsubj |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 fire | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Ahi | cop |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ahi | punct |
| 8 | Te | te | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ahi | amod |
| 9 | Ahi | Ahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tamatea | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Tamatea | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 13 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahi | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tamatea | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ahi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the volcanic fire prayer | Te Ahi | a Tamatea appos | 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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