Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 36
Te U-Kura, he says, is an exceedingly ancient designation; it was a name given by the fairies.
Who acts: Kura, Te, sight · What happens: say, be, give · To what, where: exceedingly ancient designation, name · 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 (Kura, Te, sight), 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 | Te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 designation | nsubj |
| 2 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Te | appos |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kura | punct |
| 4 | Kura | Kura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 U | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Te | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 designation | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 designation | det |
| 11 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 designation | amod |
| 12 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 designation | amod |
| 13 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 name | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 name | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 name | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 designation | conj |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 name | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fairies | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fairies | det |
| 22 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 designation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Kura | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Te | a exceedingly ancient designation and a name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | sight | a name | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | a name not said here | by the fairies | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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