Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 5
The Giants’ Causeway some fanciful _pakeha_ has named this wall of lava.
What happens: name · To what, where: Causeway
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: 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 | 2 Giants | det |
| 2 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Causeway | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 2 Giants | case |
| 4 | Causeway | Causeway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 pakeha | det |
| 6 | fanciful | fanciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pakeha | amod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 fanciful | punct |
| 8 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Causeway | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Causeway | punct |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 named | aux |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 wall | det |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 named | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lava | case |
| 15 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wall | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · perfect · passive | the Giants's Causeway | this wall of lava obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme wall=Attribute |
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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