Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 13
There is in Maori belief an exceedingly _tapu_ spot on Tauhinu-korokio, close to where the old Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ stood.
Who acts: Maori belief, old Ngati · What happens: be, stand
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 (Maori belief, old Ngati), 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 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 belief | case |
| 4 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 belief | compound |
| 5 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tapu | det |
| 7 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 9 tapu | advmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 tapu | punct |
| 9 | tapu | tapu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belief | appos |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 spot | punct |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tapu | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 korokio | case |
| 13 | Tauhinu | Tauhinu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 korokio | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tauhinu | punct |
| 15 | korokio | korokio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tapu | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 close | punct |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tapu | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 stood | case |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 stood | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Ngati | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Ngati | amod |
| 22 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Mamoe | punct |
| 24 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ngati | conj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 26 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 _ | compound |
| 27 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 close | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Maori belief | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the old Ngati and Mamoe | pa _ nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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