Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 53

He marched up on the coast to Kaikoura, and there or further north he built a canoe, or, what is more probable, borrowed or forcibly appropriated one belonging to the _tangata whenua_ who must already have been living in the Marlborough country, and crossed to the North Island.

Who acts: Tamatea · What happens: march up, build, be, borrow, appropriate, belong · To what, where: Kaikoura, coast, canoe, one, Marlborough country, North Island

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marched	nsubj
2	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 marched	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marched	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Kaikoura	case
8	Kaikoura	Kaikoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 marched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 there	cc
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 marched	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 further	cc
13	further	further	ADV	_	11 there	conj
14	north	north	ADV	_	16 built	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 built	nsubj
16	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marched	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 canoe	det
18	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 built	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 probable	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 probable	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 or	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 probable	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 probable	cop
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 probable	advmod
25	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marched	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 borrowed	punct
27	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 probable	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 appropriated	cc
29	forcibly	forcibly	ADV	_	30 appropriated	advmod
30	appropriated	appropriate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 borrowed	conj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 appropriated	obj
32	belonging	belong	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 appropriated	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 whenua	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 whenua	det
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 whenua	punct
36	tangata	tangata	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 whenua	compound
37	whenua	whenua	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 belonging	obl
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 living	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 living	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 living	aux
41	already	already	ADV	_	44 living	advmod
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 living	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 living	aux
44	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 belonging	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 country	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 country	det
47	Marlborough	Marlborough	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 country	compound
48	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 living	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 crossed	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 crossed	cc
51	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 marched	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 Island	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Island	det
54	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Island	compound
55	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 crossed	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	march up	past	Tamatea		Kaikoura	the coast		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kaikoura=Result
2	build	past	Tamatea	a canoe			north property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Product
3	is	present	Tamatea not said here				what obl; probable property	tree rules
4	borrow	participle	Tamatea not said here					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	appropriate	participle	Tamatea not said here	one			forcibly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	belong	gerund	Tamatea not said here				to the tangata whenua	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	live	must · perfect · progressive				the Marlborough country	who nsubj	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
8	cross	participle	Tamatea not said here			the North Island		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location

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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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 53