Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 4
_Tauhinu_ is a heath-like plant found all over New Zealand; it is the Pomaderis phylicaefolia of the botanists.
Who acts: Tauhinu, plant · What happens: be · To what, where: New Zealand, Pomaderis phylicaefolia
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 (Tauhinu, plant), 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 Tauhinu | punct |
| 2 | Tauhinu | Tauhinu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tauhinu | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plant | det |
| 6 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 like | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 heath | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plant | amod |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 Zealand | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 Zealand | case |
| 13 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zealand | flat |
| 14 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 phylicaefolia | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 phylicaefolia | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 phylicaefolia | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 phylicaefolia | det |
| 19 | Pomaderis | Pomaderis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 phylicaefolia | compound |
| 20 | phylicaefolia | phylicaefolia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 botanists | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 botanists | det |
| 23 | botanists | botanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 phylicaefolia | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Tauhinu | New Zealand | a like plant nsubj; find property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | plant | the Pomaderis phylicaefolia | of the botanists | 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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