Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 40
Such is the story of Tamatea’s Fire as told by Hone Taare Tikao, in reciting the legends learned from the long-dead elders of his tribe.
Who acts: legends · What happens: be, tell, recite, learn · To what, where: Such story, dead elders · 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 (legends), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fire | case |
| 6 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fire | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Tamatea | case |
| 8 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 told | mark |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Hone | case |
| 12 | Hone | hone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 13 | Taare | Taare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hone | appos |
| 14 | Tikao | Tikao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Taare | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reciting | punct |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 reciting | mark |
| 17 | reciting | recite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 legends | det |
| 19 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 learned | nsubj |
| 20 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reciting | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 elders | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 elders | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dead | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 elders | amod |
| 26 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 learned | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tribe | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 elders | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Such story | of Tamatea's Fire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | the Such story not said here | by Hone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | recite | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | learn | past | the legends | the dead elders of Tamatea's tribe | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from elder=Source |
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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