Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 43

The Wanganui River, down which the sacred fire came from the crater of Ngauruhoe, was then dry; it was a rift opened for it by the Volcano Gods.

Who acts: Wanganui River, wall · What happens: come, be, open · To what, where: crater, rift

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 (Wanganui River, wall), 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 River	det
2	Wanganui	Wanganui	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 River	compound
3	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 down	punct
5	down	down	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 came	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 crater	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crater	det
13	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Ngauruhoe	case
15	Ngauruhoe	Ngauruhoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 crater	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dry	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dry	cop
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 dry	advmod
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 rift	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rift	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rift	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rift	det
24	rift	rift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
25	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 rift	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 opened	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 Gods	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Gods	det
30	Volcano	Volcano	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Gods	compound
31	Gods	God	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 opened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Wanganui River		the crater of Ngauruhoe		which nsubj; the sacred fire nsubj; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from crater=Initial_Location
2	is	past				then	dry property	tree rules
3	is a	past	wall	a rift				tree rules
4	open	participle		a rift not said here			for wall; by the Volcano Gods	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by god=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 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 43