Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 59
O titi, bird of the sea, Bird of the hilltop cave, Come back to O-te-Patatu, To the lofty dwelling Where the sweet sounds are heard, The sound of the faery flute, The music of the mountains That thrilled me through and through!
Who acts: titi, music · What happens: come back, hear, thrill · To what, where: O te, sweet sounds, me
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, music), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 titi | discourse |
| 2 | titi | titi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Come | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 titi | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bird | punct |
| 9 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 12 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cave | compound |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Bird | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Come | punct |
| 15 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 Come | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 te | case |
| 18 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 te | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 O | punct |
| 20 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Come | obl |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Patatu | punct |
| 22 | Patatu | Patatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 te | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dwelling | punct |
| 24 | To | to | ADP | _ | 27 dwelling | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dwelling | det |
| 26 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dwelling | amod |
| 27 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Come | parataxis |
| 28 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 heard | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sounds | det |
| 30 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sounds | amod |
| 31 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 heard | aux:pass |
| 33 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 dwelling | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sound | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sound | det |
| 36 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dwelling | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 flute | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 flute | det |
| 39 | faery | faery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 flute | amod |
| 40 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sound | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 music | punct |
| 42 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 music | det |
| 43 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sound | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 mountains | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 mountains | det |
| 46 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 music | nmod |
| 47 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 thrilled | nsubj |
| 48 | thrilled | thrill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 music | acl:relcl |
| 49 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 thrilled | obj |
| 50 | through | through | ADV | _ | 48 thrilled | advmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 through | cc |
| 52 | through | through | ADV | _ | 50 through | conj |
| 53 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | infinitive | titi | O te | the lofty dwelling and the sound of the faery flute the music of the mountains parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to te=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hear | present · passive | the sweet sounds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | thrill | past | the music of the mountains | me | through property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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