Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 70
To the matter-of-fact _pakeha_ and the modernised Maori there is a very simple explanation of these fairy tales.
Who acts: simple explanation, fairy tales · What happens: modernis, be, explain
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 (simple explanation, fairy tales), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 7 fact | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fact | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fact | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fact | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fact | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 7 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 pakeha | punct |
| 9 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fact | appos |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 pakeha | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Maori | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Maori | det |
| 13 | modernised | modernis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Maori | amod |
| 14 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fact | conj |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 explanation | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 simple | advmod |
| 19 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 explanation | amod |
| 20 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tales | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 tales | det |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tales | amod |
| 24 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 explanation | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | modernis | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | be | present | a simple explanation of this fairy tales | there | to the fact matter and the modernised Maori | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | explain | this fairy tales | nom explanation «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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