Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter IV. Rapaki: A Village by the Sea, sentence 1
The Bell on the Ribbonwood Tree--Tikao and his Traditions--The Days of the Ngati-Mamoe--Te Rangiwhakaputa’s Conquests--The Crags of Tamatea--A Sturdy Pagan--Evening Picture at Rapaki 39
Who acts: Conquests · What happens: even · To what, where: Picture, Rapaki, Bell
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter IV. Rapaki: A Village by the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conquests), 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 | 2 Bell | det |
| 2 | Bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tree | det |
| 5 | Ribbonwood | Ribbonwood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tree | compound |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bell | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tikao | punct |
| 8 | Tikao | Tikao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tree | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Traditions | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Traditions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Tree | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Days | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Days | det |
| 14 | Days | Day | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Tree | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mamoe | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mamoe | det |
| 17 | Ngati | Ngati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mamoe | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ngati | punct |
| 19 | Mamoe | Mamoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Days | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 Conquests | punct |
| 21 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Conquests | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Rangiwhakaputa | Rangiwhakaputa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Te | flat |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Te | case |
| 24 | Conquests | conquest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Bell | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Crags | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Crags | det |
| 27 | Crags | crag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Conquests | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Tamatea | case |
| 29 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Crags | nmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Pagan | punct |
| 31 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Pagan | det |
| 32 | Sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Pagan | amod |
| 33 | Pagan | Pagan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Tamatea | appos |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 Evening | punct |
| 35 | Evening | even | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Conquests | acl |
| 36 | Picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Evening | obj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 Rapaki | case |
| 38 | Rapaki | Rapaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Evening | obl |
| 39 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 Rapaki | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | even | gerund | Te's Conquests and the Crags of Tamatea not said here | Picture | Rapaki | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent picture=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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