Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 56
He was a true type of the pioneer and the path-finder, the Fremont of Aotea-roa and the Wai-pounamu, the man who heard the “one everlasting Whisper”--
Who acts: Tamatea, man · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: true type, everlasting Whisper
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, man), 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 | 5 type | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 type | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 type | det |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 type | amod |
| 5 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pioneer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pioneer | det |
| 8 | pioneer | pioneer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 type | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 finder | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 finder | det |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finder | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 path | punct |
| 13 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pioneer | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fremont | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fremont | det |
| 16 | Fremont | Fremont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 finder | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 roa | case |
| 18 | Aotea | Aotea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 roa | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Aotea | punct |
| 20 | roa | roa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Fremont | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Wai | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Wai | det |
| 23 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fremont | conj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 pounamu | punct |
| 25 | pounamu | pounamu | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 Wai | dep |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Fremont | appos |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 man | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Whisper | det |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Whisper | punct |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 everlasting | nummod |
| 34 | everlasting | everlasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Whisper | compound |
| 35 | Whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heard | obj |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fremont | punct |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 type | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tamatea | a true type | of the pioneer and the path finder | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | past | the man | the everlasting Whisper | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whisper=Stimulus |
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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