Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 7
In this little book I have endeavoured to interweave with descriptions of the most picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills some of the Maori poetic legends and historical traditions which belong to the Range, and which have not previously been recorded.
Who acts: I, historical traditions · What happens: endeavour, interweave, belong, not record, describe · To what, where: little book, picturesque parts
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, historical traditions), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 book | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | amod |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endeavoured | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 endeavoured | aux |
| 7 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 interweave | mark |
| 9 | interweave | interweave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 descriptions | case |
| 11 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 interweave | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 parts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parts | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 picturesque | advmod |
| 15 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 parts | amod |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 descriptions | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Hills | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Hills | det |
| 19 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Hills | compound |
| 20 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Hills | compound |
| 21 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 parts | nmod |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 Hills | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 legends | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 legends | det |
| 25 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 legends | compound |
| 26 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 legends | amod |
| 27 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 some | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 traditions | cc |
| 29 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 traditions | amod |
| 30 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 legends | conj |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 belong | nsubj |
| 32 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 traditions | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Range | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Range | det |
| 35 | Range | Range | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 belong | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 recorded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 recorded | cc |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 recorded | obj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 recorded | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 recorded | advmod |
| 41 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 43 recorded | advmod |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 recorded | aux:pass |
| 43 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 endeavoured | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 endeavoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | present · perfect | I | this little book | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | interweave | to-infinitive | I not said here | with descriptions of the picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with description=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | historical traditions | to the Range | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not record | present · perfect · passive | I not said here | which obj; previously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | describe | the picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills | nom description «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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