Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 55
But the _Patu-paiarche_ who lived on the crags of O-te-Patatu and Tara-te-rehu also hunted these _titi_, and slaughtered them in such numbers, in a most unfairylike manner, that presently these fishy petrels became extinct in that locality.
Who acts: Patu paiarche, Patatu, that · What happens: live, hunt, slaughter, become · To what, where: crags, _ titi, Patatu, such numbers, locality
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 (Patu paiarche, Patatu, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paiarche | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 paiarche | punct |
| 4 | Patu | Patu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 paiarche | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Patu | punct |
| 6 | paiarche | paiarche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 crags | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crags | det |
| 12 | crags | crag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 te | case |
| 14 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 te | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 O | punct |
| 16 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crags | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Patatu | punct |
| 18 | Patatu | Patatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hunted | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rehu | cc |
| 20 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 rehu | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tara | punct |
| 22 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rehu | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 te | punct |
| 24 | rehu | rehu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Patatu | conj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 hunted | advmod |
| 26 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 te | acl:relcl |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 titi | det |
| 28 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 titi | amod |
| 29 | titi | titi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hunted | obj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 hunted | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 slaughtered | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 slaughtered | cc |
| 33 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 slaughtered | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 numbers | case |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 numbers | amod |
| 37 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 slaughtered | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 manner | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 manner | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 manner | det |
| 41 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 42 unfairylike | advmod |
| 42 | unfairylike | unfairylike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 manner | amod |
| 43 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slaughtered | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 became | punct |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 became | nsubj |
| 46 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 49 petrels | advmod |
| 47 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 49 petrels | det |
| 48 | fishy | fishy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 petrels | amod |
| 49 | petrels | petrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 became | nsubj |
| 50 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 manner | conj |
| 51 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 became | xcomp |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 locality | case |
| 53 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 locality | det |
| 54 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 became | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Patu paiarche | the crags of O te | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crag=Location | |||
| 2 | hunt | past | Patatu and Tara te rehu | this _ titi | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titi=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slaughter | past | the Patu paiarche not said here | Patatu | such numbers | in a unfairylike manner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 4 | become | past | that | in that locality result; this fishy petrels nsubj; extinct property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in locality=Result |
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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