Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 3
The Maori name is a combination of the names of two Native shrubs which were very plentiful on that portion of the hills in former times and specimens of which may still be seen there.
Who acts: Maori name, two Native shrubs · What happens: be, see, name · To what, where: combination, portion, two Native shrubs
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 name, two Native shrubs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | compound |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 combination | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 combination | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 combination | det |
| 6 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 names | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 names | det |
| 9 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 combination | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shrubs | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 shrubs | nummod |
| 12 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shrubs | amod |
| 13 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 names | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 plentiful | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 plentiful | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 plentiful | advmod |
| 17 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shrubs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 portion | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 portion | det |
| 20 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plentiful | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hills | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hills | det |
| 23 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 portion | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 times | case |
| 25 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 times | amod |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hills | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 specimens | cc |
| 28 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 times | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 seen | obl |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 seen | aux |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 seen | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 seen | aux:pass |
| 34 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 specimens | acl:relcl |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 seen | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 combination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Maori name | a combination | of the names of two Native shrubs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | two Native shrubs | that portion of the hills in former times and specimens | plentiful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | may · passive | there | still | of specimens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||
| 4 | name | two Native shrubs | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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