Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 51
The _titi_ or muttonbird has long since disappeared from the Port and Peninsula hills, but in the Maori days it was plentiful on many such high places.
Who acts: _ titi _, muttonbird · What happens: have, disappear, be · To what, where: Port hills, many such high places
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 (_ titi _, muttonbird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 _ | amod |
| 3 | titi | titi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | compound |
| 4 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 muttonbird | cc |
| 6 | muttonbird | muttonbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | conj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 has | advmod |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 long | conj |
| 10 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 since | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hills | det |
| 13 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hills | compound |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Peninsula | cc |
| 15 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Port | conj |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 disappeared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 plentiful | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 plentiful | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 days | det |
| 21 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 days | compound |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 plentiful | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 plentiful | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 plentiful | cop |
| 25 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 has | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 places | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 places | amod |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 places | amod |
| 29 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 places | amod |
| 30 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 plentiful | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the _ titi _ or muttonbird | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | disappear | participle | the Port hills | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | is | past | muttonbird | many such high places | day | plentiful 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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