Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 6
To the Maori it is the “Ahi-a-Tamatea” or “the Fire of Tamatea”, and a strange nature legend there is thereto; a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth are curiously blended.
Who acts: Tamatea · What happens: be, blend · To what, where: strange nature legend
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Maori | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Maori | det |
| 3 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 “ | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 “ | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 “ | det |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maori | punct |
| 8 | Ahi | Ahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 “ | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tamatea | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Tamatea | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tamatea | punct |
| 12 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ahi | nmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tamatea | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 Fire | cc |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fire | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fire | det |
| 17 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tamatea | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Tamatea | case |
| 19 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fire | nmod |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tamatea | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 blended | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 blended | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 legend | det |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 legend | amod |
| 25 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 legend | compound |
| 26 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 blended | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 legend | cop |
| 29 | thereto | thereto | ADV | _ | 28 is | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 tale | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tale | det |
| 32 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tale | compound |
| 33 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 legend | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 fable | case |
| 35 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 36 fable | det |
| 36 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tale | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 myth | cc |
| 38 | geologic | geologic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 myth | amod |
| 39 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fable | conj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 blended | aux:pass |
| 41 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 42 blended | advmod |
| 42 | blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Tamatea | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maori | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a strange nature legend and a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth | a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blend | present · passive | a Tamatea or the Fire of Tamatea not said here | a strange nature legend and a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth | curiously property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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