Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 10

“We are half _pakeha_ ourselves now, we Ngai-Tahu,” he said, “and our young people deride these notions about the _Patu-paiarehe_.

Who acts: We, Kaumatua, young people · What happens: be, say, deride · To what, where: _ pakeha, notions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Kaumatua, young people), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pakeha	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pakeha	cop
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 _	advmod
5	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pakeha	amod
6	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 ourselves	punct
8	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 pakeha	conj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 pakeha	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Ngai	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Ngai	nsubj
12	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pakeha	parataxis
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Tahu	punct
14	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ngai	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pakeha	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pakeha	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 deride	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 deride	cc
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 people	nmod:poss
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 deride	nsubj
25	deride	deride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 notions	det
27	notions	notion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 deride	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	33 paiarehe	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 paiarehe	det
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 paiarehe	punct
31	Patu	Patu	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 paiarehe	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Patu	punct
33	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 notions	nmod
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 deride	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	We	_ pakeha	now	ourselves conj; Ngai we and Tahu parataxis	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Kaumatua				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	deride in a quote	present	our young people	this notions		about the Patu paiarehe	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 10