Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 19
However, these fancies need not trouble the _pakeha_, whose constitution is not affected by even the most virulent of Maori bedevilments.
Who acts: fancies · What happens: not need, not affect · To what, where: trouble, constitution
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 (fancies), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 need | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fancies | det |
| 4 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pakeha | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pakeha | amod |
| 10 | pakeha | pakeha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 affected | punct |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 constitution | nmod:poss |
| 14 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 affected | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 affected | advmod |
| 17 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 need | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 virulent | mark |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 virulent | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 virulent | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 virulent | advmod |
| 22 | virulent | virulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 affected | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bedevilments | case |
| 24 | Maori | maori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bedevilments | amod |
| 25 | bedevilments | bedevilment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 virulent | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present | this fancies | trouble | the _ pakeha obj; however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not affect | present · passive | constitution | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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