Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 12

_Kumara_ and _taro_, the tropic foods of the north, did not flourish in the hill country of the south, though they did well enough, with care, on favoured parts of the Canterbury Plains and the Coast.

Who acts: Kumara, foods · What happens: not flourish, do, favour · To what, where: hill country

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 (Kumara, foods), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Kumara	punct
2	Kumara	Kumara	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 flourish	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Kumara	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 taro	cc
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 taro	punct
6	taro	taro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kumara	conj
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 taro	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 foods	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foods	det
10	tropic	tropic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foods	amod
11	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Kumara	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foods	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kumara	punct
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flourish	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 flourish	advmod
18	flourish	flourish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 country	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 country	det
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 country	compound
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flourish	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 south	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 south	det
25	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 country	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 did	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 did	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 did	nsubj
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flourish	parataxis
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 did	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 did	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 care	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 care	case
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flourish	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 parts	punct
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 parts	case
37	favoured	favour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 parts	amod
38	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flourish	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Plains	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Plains	det
41	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Plains	compound
42	Plains	Plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 parts	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Coast	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Coast	det
45	Coast	Coast	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Plains	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 flourish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not flourish	past · do-support	Kumara and taro and the tropic foods of the north	the hill country of the south	on favoured parts of the Canterbury Plains and the Coast; care conj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
2	do	past	foods = food		enough, well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	favour	participle				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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The tree

Pragmatics

Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 12