Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 38
In his younger days, when he lived at Tikao Bay, on the shores of Akaroa harbour, he frequently observed for himself the peculiar fitness of the Hilltop name.
Who acts: light · What happens: live, observe · To what, where: Tikao Bay, peculiar fitness
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 (light), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 days | nmod:poss |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lived | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Bay | case |
| 10 | Tikao | Tikao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bay | compound |
| 11 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shores | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shores | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shores | det |
| 15 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 harbour | case |
| 17 | Akaroa | Akaroa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 harbour | compound |
| 18 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shores | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 observed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 observed | nsubj |
| 21 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 22 observed | advmod |
| 22 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 observed | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fitness | det |
| 26 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fitness | amod |
| 27 | fitness | fitness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 observed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 name | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 name | det |
| 30 | Hilltop | Hilltop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 name | compound |
| 31 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fitness | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | light | Tikao Bay | day | on the shores of Akaroa harbour | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bay=Location | ||
| 2 | observe | past | light | the peculiar fitness of the Hilltop name | for light; frequently property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent fitness=Location for himself=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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