Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter V., sentence 2
The Giant’s Causeway--A Volcanic Dyke--Tamatea the Polynesian Explorer--A Great March--The Camp at Witch Hill--Tamatea’s Call for Fire--The _Tipua_ Flames from Ngauruhoe--“The Ashes of Tamatea’s Camp Fire” 52
Who acts: Tamatea · What happens: call · To what, where: Giant Causeway · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tamatea), 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 | 4 Causeway | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Causeway | amod |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Giant | case |
| 4 | Causeway | Causeway | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dyke | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Dyke | det |
| 7 | Volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dyke | amod |
| 8 | Dyke | dyke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Causeway | appos |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tamatea | punct |
| 10 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Causeway | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Explorer | det |
| 12 | Polynesian | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Explorer | compound |
| 13 | Explorer | Explorer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tamatea | appos |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 March | punct |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 March | det |
| 16 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 March | amod |
| 17 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tamatea | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Camp | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Camp | det |
| 20 | Camp | Camp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tamatea | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 Hill | case |
| 22 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hill | compound |
| 23 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Camp | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Call | punct |
| 25 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Call | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Tamatea | case |
| 27 | Call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tamatea | appos |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Fire | case |
| 29 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Call | nmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Tipua | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Tipua | det |
| 32 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Tipua | compound |
| 33 | Tipua | Tipua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Causeway | appos |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Flames | punct |
| 35 | Flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 Ashes | nsubj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 Ngauruhoe | case |
| 37 | Ngauruhoe | Ngauruhoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Flames | nmod |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 Ashes | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Ashes | punct |
| 40 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Ashes | det |
| 41 | Ashes | Ash | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 Tipua | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Fire | case |
| 43 | Tamatea | Tamatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Fire | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 Tamatea | case |
| 45 | Camp | Camp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Fire | compound |
| 46 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Ashes | nmod |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Tipua | punct |
| 48 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Causeway | list |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | call | Tamatea | for Fire | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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