Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 1
Now the Old Man’s memories take him back seawards across the Port Hills to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu-Korokio.
Who acts: memories, Port · What happens: take back, hill · To what, where: Man
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memories, Port), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 take | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Man | det |
| 3 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Man | amod |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 memories | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Man | case |
| 6 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 10 | seawards | seaward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 Hills | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Port | det |
| 13 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hills | nsubj |
| 14 | Hills | hill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 knolls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knolls | det |
| 17 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knolls | amod |
| 18 | knolls | knoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Hills | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tauhinu | case |
| 20 | Tauhinu | Tauhinu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 knolls | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Korokio | punct |
| 22 | Korokio | Korokio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tauhinu | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | present | the Old Man's memories | Man | now | seawards obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme seaward=Destination | ||
| 2 | hill | present | the Port | to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu and Korokio | tree rules |
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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