Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 8

The _Kaumatua_ spoke of the hilltop homes of the _Patu-paiarehe_, the fairies, whose craggy castles defended by the thick dark woods and the fogs and mists, ringed all this harbour round and made the high places of the Peninsula an uncanny land, given up to all manner of enchantments.

Who acts: Kaumatua, fairies · What happens: speak, defend, ring, make, give up · To what, where: fairies, craggy castles, harbour, high places, uncanny land, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kaumatua, fairies), 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 Kaumatua	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Kaumatua	punct
3	Kaumatua	Kaumatua	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 homes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 homes	det
8	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 homes	compound
9	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spoke	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 paiarehe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 paiarehe	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 paiarehe	punct
13	Patu	Patu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 paiarehe	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Patu	punct
15	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 homes	nmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fairies	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fairies	det
19	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spoke	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 castles	punct
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 castles	nmod:poss
22	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 castles	amod
23	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fairies	conj
24	defended	defend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 castles	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	29 woods	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woods	det
27	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woods	amod
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woods	amod
29	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 defended	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fogs	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fogs	det
32	fogs	fog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 woods	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mists	cc
34	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fogs	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ringed	punct
36	ringed	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fairies	acl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 harbour	det:predet
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 harbour	det
39	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ringed	obj
40	round	round	ADV	_	36 ringed	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 made	cc
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 places	det
44	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 places	amod
45	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 Peninsula	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Peninsula	det
48	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 places	nmod
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 land	det
50	uncanny	uncanny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 land	amod
51	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 places	appos
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 given	punct
53	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 land	acl
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 given	compound:prt
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 manner	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 manner	det
57	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 given	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 enchantments	case
59	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 manner	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the Kaumatua	the fairies and the fairies and the fairies's craggy castles's craggy castles		of the hilltop homes of the Patu paiarehe	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	defend	participle		the fairies and the fairies and craggy castles's craggy castles's craggy castles not said here		by the thick dark woods and the fogs and mists	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	ring	participle	the fairies and the fairies and the fairies's craggy castles's craggy castles not said here	all harbour		round property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location harbour=Theme
4	make	past	the Kaumatua not said here	the high places of the Peninsula			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product
5	give up	participle		a uncanny land not said here	all manner of enchantments		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to manner=Recipient

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 8