Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 56

A woman of the Ngai-Tahu, or Ngati-Mamoe, at Akaroa, who was said to be in love with a fairy, but who no doubt also loved the palatable muttonbird, chanted this little _waiata_, a song of fairy times which is still to be heard at Rapaki and other Native villages:--

Who acts: Ngati, fairy times · What happens: say, be, love, chant, sing · To what, where: Akaroa, love, palatable muttonbird, little _, Rapaki, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ngati, fairy times), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Tahu	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tahu	det
5	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tahu	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Tahu	punct
7	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 woman	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ngati	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 Ngati	cc
10	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tahu	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Mamoe	punct
12	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ngati	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Akaroa	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 Akaroa	case
15	Akaroa	Akaroa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ngati	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 said	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux:pass
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Akaroa	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	23 love	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 love	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 love	case
23	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 fairy	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fairy	det
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 love	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 loved	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 loved	cc
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 loved	nsubj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 doubt	det
31	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loved	nsubj
32	also	also	ADV	_	33 loved	advmod
33	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Ngati	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 muttonbird	det
35	palatable	palatable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 muttonbird	amod
36	muttonbird	muttonbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 loved	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chanted	punct
38	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 loved	parataxis
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 _	nsubj
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 _	amod
41	_	_	X	_	38 chanted	obj
42	waiata	waiata	X	_	41 _	goeswith
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 chanted	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 song	punct
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 song	det
46	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Ngati	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 times	case
48	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 times	compound
49	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 song	nmod
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 heard	obj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 heard	cop
52	still	still	ADV	_	55 heard	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	55 heard	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 heard	aux:pass
55	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 times	acl:relcl
56	at	at	ADP	_	57 Rapaki	case
57	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 heard	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 villages	cc
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 villages	amod
60	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 villages	amod
61	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 Rapaki	conj
62	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
63	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 woman	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		Akaroa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive			love		with a fairy	tree rules
3	love	past	Ngati and Akaroa and a song of fairy times	the palatable muttonbird			no doubt nsubj	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer muttonbird=Stimulus
4	chant	past		little _ this				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Topic
5	is	present · passive			Rapaki and other Native villages	fairy times; still	hear property	tree rules
7	sing		fairy times					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 56