Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 25
Otoki--the Place of the Axe--is the name for Brazenose, but there is an ancient burying-ground there, upon the misty mountain immediately above the little Maori village of Onuku, on the beach side, which is called Otehore; the _Wahi-tapu_, or cemetery, makes it doubly sacred.
Who acts: Otoki, ancient burying ground, ground · What happens: be, call, make, sacre · To what, where: name, beach side · 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 (Otoki, ancient burying ground, ground), 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 | Otoki | Otoki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Place | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Place | det |
| 4 | Place | Place | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Otoki | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Axe | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Axe | det |
| 7 | Axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Place | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Otoki | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Brazenose | case |
| 13 | Brazenose | brazenose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 is | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | parataxis |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 19 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ground | amod |
| 20 | burying | burying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ground | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 burying | punct |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 is | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mountain | punct |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 mountain | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountain | det |
| 27 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mountain | amod |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | conj |
| 29 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 28 mountain | advmod |
| 30 | above | above | ADP | _ | 34 village | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 village | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 village | amod |
| 33 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 village | compound |
| 34 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mountain | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Onuku | case |
| 36 | Onuku | Onuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 village | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 side | punct |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 side | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 side | det |
| 40 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 side | compound |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 village | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 called | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 called | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 called | aux:pass |
| 45 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 side | acl:relcl |
| 46 | Otehore | Otehore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 called | xcomp |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 tapu | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 tapu | det |
| 49 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 52 tapu | punct |
| 50 | Wahi | Wahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 tapu | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 Wahi | punct |
| 52 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | conj |
| 53 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 52 tapu | punct |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 cemetery | punct |
| 55 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 56 cemetery | cc |
| 56 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 tapu | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 makes | punct |
| 58 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 tapu | parataxis |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 sacred | nsubj |
| 60 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 61 sacred | advmod |
| 61 | sacred | sacre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 makes | ccomp |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Otoki | the name and the Wahi tapu or cemetery | for Brazenose; the Wahi tapu or cemetery conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | present | a ancient burying ground | there; there | the misty mountain above the little Maori village of Onuku and the beach side conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | the beach side | Otehore xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | sacre | past | ground | doubly property | 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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