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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 come | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 9 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 example | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 example | det |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 example | nummod |
| 14 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 example | amod |
| 15 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 legendry | case |
| 17 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 legendry | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 volcano | punct |
| 19 | legendry | legendry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 example | nmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 writer | det |
| 21 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | aux |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 legendry | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Island | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Island | det |
| 26 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Island | compound |
| 27 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 come | nsubj |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 name | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 peak | det |
| 33 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 peak | compound |
| 34 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 name | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 peak | case |
| 36 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 name | amod |
| 37 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Te | punct |
| 39 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 name | appos |
| 40 | Poho | Poho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Te | flat |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Tamatea | punct |
| 42 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 44 Tamatea | case |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 o | punct |
| 44 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Te | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | the writer | volcano legendry not said here | the South Island | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent legendry=Topic from island=Source | |||
| 2 | come | present | we | the Rapaki peak's guardian name | by way of the long Maori story the one solitary example of volcano legendry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to name=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | exemplify | volcano legendry | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | name | the Rapaki peak | nom 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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