Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 51
The explorer bestowed his name upon the height, _tapa-ing_ it after himself and his sacred breast, much as a present-day traveller justly might claim the right to map-name some peak after himself.
Who acts: explorer, much · What happens: bestow, claim, map, name · To what, where: name, right, peak
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 (explorer, much), 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 explorer | det |
| 2 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bestowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bestowed | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 height | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 height | det |
| 8 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bestowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ing | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 ing | punct |
| 11 | tapa | tapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ing | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tapa | punct |
| 13 | ing | ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 height | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 himself | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 himself | nsubj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bestowed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 breast | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 breast | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 breast | amod |
| 21 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 himself | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 much | punct |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 claim | nsubj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 traveller | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 traveller | det |
| 26 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 present | punct |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 traveller | compound |
| 29 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 much | nmod |
| 30 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 32 claim | advmod |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 claim | aux |
| 32 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bestowed | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 right | det |
| 34 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 claim | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 map | mark |
| 36 | map | map | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 right | acl |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 name | punct |
| 38 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 claim | conj |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 peak | det |
| 40 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 name | obj |
| 41 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 himself | case |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 name | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | the explorer | explorer's name | after explorer | upon the height and tapa ing | tree rules | ||
| 2 | claim speech: other | might | much as a day traveller | the right | justly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent right=Topic | |||
| 3 | map | to-infinitive | much as a day traveller not said here | the right not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | infinitive | much as a day traveller not said here | some peak | after explorer | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peak=Theme | |||
| 5 | name | explorer | 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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