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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 50

And so, by way of the long Maori story, the one solitary example of volcano-legendry the writer has heard from the South Island, we come to the Rapaki peak’s guardian name, Te Poho-o-Tamatea.

Who acts: writer, we, Rapaki peak · What happens: hear, come, exemplify, name · To what, where: volcano legendry, South Island, guardian name

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 (writer, we, Rapaki peak), 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

ccadvmodpunctcaseoblcasedetamodcompoundnmodpunctdetnummodamodnmodcasecompoundpunctnmoddetnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjcasedetcompoundnmod:posscaseamodoblpunctapposflatpunctcasepunctconjpunctrootAndCCONJsoADV,PUNCTbyADPwayNOUNofADPtheDETlongADJMaoriPROPNstoryNOUN,PUNCTtheDEToneNUMsolitaryADJexampleNOUNofADPvolcanoNOUN-PUNCTlegendryNOUNtheDETwriterNOUNhasAUXheardVERBfromADPtheDETSouthPROPNIslandPROPN,PUNCTwePRONcomeVERBtoADPtheDETRapakiPROPNpeakNOUN’sPARTguardianADJnameNOUN,PUNCTTePROPNPohoPROPN-PUNCToADP-PUNCTTamateaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_30 comecc
2sosoADV_30 comeadvmod
3,,PUNCT_5 waypunct
4bybyADP_5 waycase
5waywayNOUNNumber=Sing30 comeobl
6ofofADP_10 storycase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 storydet
8longlongADJDegree=Pos10 storyamod
9MaoriMaoriPROPNNumber=Sing10 storycompound
10storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing5 waynmod
11,,PUNCT_15 examplepunct
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 exampledet
13oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 examplenummod
14solitarysolitaryADJDegree=Pos15 exampleamod
15exampleexampleNOUNNumber=Sing10 storynmod
16ofofADP_19 legendrycase
17volcanovolcanoNOUNNumber=Sing19 legendrycompound
18--PUNCT_17 volcanopunct
19legendrylegendryNOUNNumber=Sing15 examplenmod
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 writerdet
21writerwriterNOUNNumber=Sing23 heardnsubj
22hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 heardaux
23heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 legendryacl:relcl
24fromfromADP_27 Islandcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Islanddet
26SouthSouthPROPNNumber=Sing27 Islandcompound
27IslandIslandPROPNNumber=Sing23 heardobl
28,,PUNCT_5 waypunct
29wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs30 comensubj
30comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
31totoADP_37 namecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 peakdet
33RapakiRapakiPROPNNumber=Sing34 peakcompound
34peakpeakNOUNNumber=Sing37 namenmod:poss
35’s'sPART_34 peakcase
36guardianguardianADJDegree=Pos37 nameamod
37namenameNOUNNumber=Sing30 comeobl
38,,PUNCT_39 Tepunct
39TeTePROPNNumber=Sing37 nameappos
40PohoPohoPROPNNumber=Sing39 Teflat
41--PUNCT_44 Tamateapunct
42oofADPAbbr=Yes44 Tamateacase
43--PUNCT_42 opunct
44TamateaTamateaPROPNNumber=Sing39 Teconj
45..PUNCT_30 comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpresent · perfectthe writervolcano legendry not said herethe South Islandvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent legendry=Topic from island=Source
2comepresentwethe Rapaki peak's guardian nameby way of the long Maori story the one solitary example of volcano legendryvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to name=Initial_Location
3exemplifyvolcano legendrynom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4namethe Rapaki peaknom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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