Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 72

The old English and Scottish belief in fairy people arose in much the same way, the very word “pixy” comes from the name of the Picts, who were driven into the hills and caves.

Who acts: English Scottish belief, word · What happens: arise, come, drive · To what, where: same way, name, Picts, hills

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 (English Scottish belief, word), 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 English	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 English	amod
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 belief	compound
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 English	cc
5	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 belief	amod
6	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arose	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fairy	case
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belief	nmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arose	nsubj
10	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 arose	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 word	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 word	advmod
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	nsubj
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 pixy	punct
21	pixy	pixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 word	appos
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 pixy	punct
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	acl:relcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 name	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 name	det
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Picts	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Picts	det
29	Picts	Pict	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 name	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 driven	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 driven	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 driven	aux:pass
33	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 Picts	acl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 hills	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hills	det
36	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 driven	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 caves	cc
38	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hills	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past	English Scottish belief in fairy	the same way		people nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	the word	the same way not said here	the name		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	drive	past · passive		the Picts	the hills and caves		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into hill=Trajectory

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 72