Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 7
Tauhinu-korokio was an ancient _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe which stood on the site of Major Hornbrook’s old homestead and the present house of
Who acts: Tauhinu korokio, ancient _ pa, Major · What happens: be, stand, homestead · To what, where: ancient _ pa, site
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 korokio, ancient _ pa, Major), 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 | Tauhinu | Tauhinu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 korokio | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tauhinu | punct |
| 3 | korokio | korokio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pa | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pa | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pa | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pa | amod |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pa | compound |
| 8 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ngati | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Ngati | case |
| 11 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pa | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Mamoe | punct |
| 13 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ngati | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pa | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 site | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 site | det |
| 18 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 homestead | case |
| 20 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 homestead | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Hornbrook | Hornbrook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Major | flat |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Major | case |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 homestead | amod |
| 24 | homestead | homestead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 site | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 house | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 27 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tauhinu korokio | a ancient _ pa | Ngati and Mamoe appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a ancient _ pa | the site of Major's old homestead | of the present house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on site=Location | |||
| 3 | homestead | Major | nom homestead «possession transitive»: poss=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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