Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter V., sentence 1
The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.
Who acts: Ahi · What happens: come, witch · To what, where: Hill
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter V.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahi), 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 | 3 Ahi | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ahi | punct |
| 3 | Ahi | Ahi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Came | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tamatea | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Tamatea | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tamatea | punct |
| 7 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahi | conj |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ahi | punct |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Came | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 Came | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fire | det |
| 12 | Sacred | Sacred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fire | compound |
| 13 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Came | nsubj |
| 14 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 Witch | mark |
| 16 | Witch | witch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Came | xcomp |
| 17 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Witch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Ahi and a Tamatea | the Sacred Fire nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | witch | to-infinitive | the Ahi and a Tamatea not said here | Hill | 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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