Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 52
Tamatea’s travels led him far after he turned his back on the Port Hills.
Who acts: Tamatea · What happens: travel, lead, turn · To what, where: Tamatea, back, Port Hills
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 (Tamatea), 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 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tamatea | case |
| 3 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travels | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | obj |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 led | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 turned | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Hills | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hills | det |
| 14 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hills | compound |
| 15 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 turned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Tamatea | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | Tamatea not said here | Tamatea | far property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | Tamatea | Tamatea's back | the Port Hills | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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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