Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 67

The _Maeroero_ were the wild men of the woods, fierce hairy giants who sometimes captured Maori women and carried them off to be their wives in the bush of the Port Hills.

Who acts: fierce hairy giants · What happens: be, capture, carry off · To what, where: wild men, Maori women, women, bush, wives, Maeroero

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 (fierce hairy giants), 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 Maeroero	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Maeroero	punct
3	Maeroero	Maeroero	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 men	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Maeroero	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 woods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woods	det
11	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 giants	punct
13	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 giants	amod
14	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 giants	amod
15	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	conj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 captured	nsubj
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 captured	advmod
18	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 giants	acl:relcl
19	Maori	Maori	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 women	compound
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 captured	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 captured	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 carried	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	28 wives	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 wives	cop
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wives	nmod:poss
28	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carried	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 bush	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bush	det
31	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 Hills	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Hills	det
34	Port	Port	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Hills	compound
35	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 bush	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Maeroero	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wild men and fierce hairy giants		of the woods; fierce hairy giants conj	tree rules
2	capture	past	fierce hairy giants	Maori women		sometimes property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
3	carry off	past	fierce hairy giants not said here	women = woman	the bush of the Port Hills		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in bush=Location
4	is a	to-infinitive	fierce hairy giants not said here	women's wives		women = woman nmod:poss	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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🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 67