Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 42
This surely is a name that the _pakeha_ should imprint upon his Peninsula maps.
Who acts: This, _ pakeha _ · What happens: be, imprint · To what, where: name, Peninsula maps
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 (This, _ pakeha _), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 name | nsubj |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 name | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 imprint | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 _ | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 _ | amod |
| 9 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 _ | compound |
| 10 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 imprint | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 imprint | aux |
| 12 | imprint | imprint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 name | acl:relcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 maps | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 maps | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 maps | compound |
| 16 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 imprint | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a name | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | imprint | should | the _ pakeha _ | a name | _'s Peninsula maps | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme upon map=Destination |
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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