Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 7

It is a volcano myth which closely resembles, and is no doubt a copy of, the North Island legend of Ngatoro-i-Rangi and the origin of the Ngauruhoe volcano.

Who acts: Maori, volcano myth, doubt · What happens: be, resemble · To what, where: volcano myth, copy

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 (Maori, volcano myth, doubt), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 myth	det
4	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 myth	compound
5	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 resembles	nsubj
7	closely	closely	ADV	_	8 resembles	advmod
8	resembles	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 myth	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 copy	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 copy	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 copy	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 doubt	det
13	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 copy	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 copy	det
15	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 resembles	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 legend	case
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 of	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 legend	det
19	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Island	compound
20	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 legend	compound
21	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 copy	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Ngatoro	case
23	Ngatoro	Ngatoro	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 legend	nmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Rangi	punct
25	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Rangi	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Rangi	punct
27	Rangi	Rangi	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ngatoro	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 origin	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 origin	det
30	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 legend	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 volcano	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 volcano	det
33	Ngauruhoe	Ngauruhoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 volcano	compound
34	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 origin	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 myth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Maori	a volcano myth		tree rules
2	resemble	present	a volcano myth		closely property	tree rules
3	is a	present	no doubt	a copy	of the Island legend of Ngatoro and Rangi i and the origin of the Ngauruhoe volcano	tree rules

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 7