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Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 9

Not that he reposed implicit faith in the fairy stories himself, he told them as he had heard them from his elders in the days of long ago.

Who acts: Kaumatua · What happens: not repose, tell, hear · To what, where: implicit faith, fairy stories, stories, elders · 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), 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

advmodmarknsubjamodobjcasedetcompoundoblnmodpunctnsubjconjiobjmarknsubjauxccompobjcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblcaseadvmodnmodpunctrootNotPARTthatSCONJhePRONreposedVERBimplicitADJfaithNOUNinADPtheDETfairyNOUNstoriesNOUNhimselfPRON,PUNCThePRONtoldVERBthemPRONasSCONJhePRONhadAUXheardVERBthemPRONfromADPhisPRONeldersNOUNinADPtheDETdaysNOUNofADPlongADVagoADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NotnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 reposedadvmod
2thatthatSCONJ_4 reposedmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 reposednsubj
4reposedreposeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5implicitimplicitADJDegree=Pos6 faithamod
6faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing4 reposedobj
7ininADP_10 storiescase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 storiesdet
9fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing10 storiescompound
10storiesstoryNOUNNumber=Plur4 reposedobl
11himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes10 storiesnmod
12,,PUNCT_14 toldpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 toldnsubj
14toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 reposedconj
15themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 toldiobj
16asasSCONJ_19 heardmark
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 heardnsubj
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 heardaux
19heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part14 toldccomp
20themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 heardobj
21fromfromADP_23 elderscase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 eldersnmod:poss
23elderselderNOUNNumber=Plur19 heardobl
24ininADP_26 dayscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 daysdet
26daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur19 heardobl
27ofofADP_29 agocase
28longlongADVDegree=Pos29 agoadvmod
29agoagoADV_26 daysnmod
30..PUNCT_4 reposedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not reposepastKaumatuaimplicit faiththe fairy stories Kaumatuavn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location faith=Theme
2tell speech: assertpastKaumatuastories = storyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3hearpast · perfectKaumatuastories = storyKaumatua's eldersdayvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Topic from elder=Source

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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