Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 71

The _Patu-paiarehe_ and the _Maero_ were simply the remnants of aboriginal tribes, such as the Ngati-Mamoe or the Waitaha or their predecessors, driven away into the heart of the mountains and the forests, where they lived a wild, secluded life, existing on the foods of the wilderness.

Who acts: predecessors · What happens: be, drive away, live, exist · To what, where: remnants, Ngati Mamoe, heart, wild secluded life, foods, Patu paiarehe

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 (predecessors), 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	5 paiarehe	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 paiarehe	punct
3	Patu	Patu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paiarehe	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Patu	punct
5	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Maero	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Maero	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Maero	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Maero	punct
10	Maero	Maero	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paiarehe	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 remnants	punct
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remnants	cop
13	simply	simply	ADV	_	15 remnants	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 remnants	det
15	remnants	remnant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Maero	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tribes	case
17	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tribes	amod
18	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 remnants	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Mamoe	punct
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 Mamoe	case
21	as	as	ADP	_	20 such	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Mamoe	det
23	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Mamoe	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Mamoe	punct
25	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 remnants	nmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 Waitaha	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Waitaha	det
28	Waitaha	Waitaha	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Mamoe	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 predecessors	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 predecessors	nmod:poss
31	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Mamoe	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 driven	punct
33	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 Mamoe	acl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 driven	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 heart	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 heart	det
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 driven	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 mountains	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mountains	det
40	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 heart	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 forests	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 forests	det
43	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 mountains	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lived	punct
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 lived	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lived	nsubj
47	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forests	acl:relcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 life	det
49	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 life	amod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 wild	punct
51	secluded	secluded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 life	amod
52	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lived	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 existing	punct
54	existing	exist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 lived	advcl
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 foods	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 foods	det
57	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 existing	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 wilderness	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 wilderness	det
60	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 foods	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paiarehe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the remnants		of aboriginal tribes; such the Ngati Mamoe or the Waitaha or Mamoe's predecessors; simply property	tree rules
2	drive away	participle		the Ngati Mamoe or the Waitaha or Mamoe's predecessors not said here	the heart of the mountains and the forests	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into heart=Trajectory
3	live	past	predecessors = predecessor	a wild secluded life			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
4	exist	gerund	predecessors = predecessor not said here		the foods of the wilderness		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location

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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 71