Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 10
There was a good spring of water close by, and this important fact no doubt determined the situation of the Ngati-Mamoe hillmen’s village.
Who acts: good spring, this, doubt · What happens: be, fact, determine · To what, where: situation
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 (good spring, this, doubt), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spring | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spring | amod |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spring | nmod |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 close | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 determined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 determined | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fact | nsubj |
| 13 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fact | amod |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | obl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 doubt | det |
| 16 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | nsubj |
| 17 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 situation | det |
| 19 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 village | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hillmen | det |
| 22 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mamoe | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ngati | punct |
| 24 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hillmen | compound |
| 25 | hillmen | hillmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 village | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 hillmen | case |
| 27 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 situation | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a good spring of water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fact | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | determine | past | no doubt | the situation of the Mamoe hillmen's village | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic |
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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