Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter II. The Port Hills and Their Names, sentence 1
Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range--Hills of the Rainbow God--“The Pinnacle of Kahukura”--Crags of the Sounding Footsteps--Ancient Lyttelton: “The Basket of Heads”--Ambuscades in the Bush 7
To what, where: Maori Nomenclature
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter II. The Port Hills and Their Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maori | Maori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nomenclature | compound |
| 2 | Nomenclature | Nomenclature | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Range | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Range | det |
| 5 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Range | compound |
| 6 | Range | Range | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nomenclature | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hills | punct |
| 8 | Hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Nomenclature | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 God | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 God | det |
| 11 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 God | compound |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hills | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pinnacle | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pinnacle | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Pinnacle | det |
| 16 | Pinnacle | Pinnacle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 God | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kahukura | case |
| 18 | Kahukura | Kahukura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Pinnacle | nmod |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pinnacle | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Crags | punct |
| 21 | Crags | crag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 God | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Footsteps | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Footsteps | det |
| 24 | Sounding | sounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Footsteps | compound |
| 25 | Footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Crags | nmod |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lyttelton | punct |
| 27 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Lyttelton | amod |
| 28 | Lyttelton | Lyttelton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Footsteps | appos |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 Basket | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Basket | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Basket | det |
| 32 | Basket | Basket | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Lyttelton | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Heads | case |
| 34 | Heads | Head | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 Basket | nmod |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lyttelton | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 Ambuscades | punct |
| 37 | Ambuscades | Ambuscade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Crags | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Bush | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Bush | det |
| 40 | Bush | Bush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Crags | nmod |
| 41 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Bush | flat |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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