Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 54

The Maori tribes who lived on the beaches and on the trenched and parapeted promontories made expeditions to the hilltop in the season when the young birds were fat, and caught, cooked and preserved them in kelp baskets and pottles, just as the Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island Maoris do at the present time.

Who acts: Maori tribes, young birds, Foveaux Strait · What happens: live, trench, parapet, make, be, catch · To what, where: beaches, expeditions, trenched promontories, birds, kelp baskets

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 (Maori tribes, young birds, Foveaux Strait), 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	3 tribes	det
2	Maori	maori	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tribes	amod
3	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 beaches	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beaches	det
8	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 promontories	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 promontories	det
12	trenched	trench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 promontories	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 parapeted	cc
14	parapeted	parapet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 trenched	conj
15	promontories	promontory	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obl
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
17	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 hilltop	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hilltop	det
20	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 season	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 season	det
23	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hilltop	nmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 fat	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 birds	amod
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fat	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fat	cop
29	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 made	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 caught	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 caught	cc
32	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cooked	punct
34	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 caught	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 preserved	cc
36	preserved	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cooked	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 preserved	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 baskets	case
39	kelp	kelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 baskets	compound
40	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 preserved	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pottles	cc
42	pottles	pottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 baskets	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Strait	punct
44	just	just	ADV	_	48 Strait	advmod
45	as	as	ADP	_	48 Strait	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Strait	det
47	Foveaux	Foveaux	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Strait	compound
48	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 caught	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 Island	cc
50	Stewart	Stewart	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Island	compound
51	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Strait	conj
52	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Island	flat
53	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 Strait	acl:relcl
54	at	at	ADP	_	57 time	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 time	det
56	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 time	compound
57	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 do	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Maori tribes		the beaches		who nsubj	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location
2	trench	participle						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	parapet	participle						tree rules
4	make	past	the Maori tribes not said here	expeditions	the trenched promontories		to the hilltop in the season	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset expedition=Product
5	is	past	the young birds				fat property	tree rules
6	catch	past	the Maori tribes not said here				as the Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	cook	past	the Maori tribes not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	preserve	past	the Maori tribes not said here	birds = bird	kelp baskets and pottles			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
9	do	present	the Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island not said here			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 54

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Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 54