Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 42

The _Kaumatua_ truly says that the magical walls of Tamatea’s Fire Ashes are of later origin than the volcanic crags and hills which lie about them, and across which they cut.

Who acts: Kaumatua, magical walls, volcanic crags, crags · What happens: say, be, lie, cut · 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 (Kaumatua, magical walls, volcanic crags, crags), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kaumatua	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Kaumatua	punct
3	Kaumatua	Kaumatua	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Kaumatua	punct
5	truly	truly	ADV	_	6 says	advmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 origin	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
9	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walls	amod
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 origin	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 Ashes	case
12	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ashes	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Tamatea	case
14	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ashes	compound
15	Ashes	Ash	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 walls	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 origin	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 origin	case
18	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 origin	amod
19	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 crags	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crags	det
22	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 crags	amod
23	crags	crag	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 origin	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hills	cc
25	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 crags	conj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lie	nsubj
27	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 crags	acl:relcl
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lie	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cut	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cut	cc
32	across	across	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 cut	obl
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cut	nsubj
35	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Kaumatua	truly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the magical walls of Tamatea's Fire Ashes	of later origin; than the volcanic crags and hills	tree rules
3	lie	present	the volcanic crags and hills	about crags = crag	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about they=Location
4	cut	present	crags = crag	which obl	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across which=Location

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 42