Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter VI. Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist, sentence 1
Legends of the _Patu-paiarehe_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsula Hills--Mountains of Enchantment--“The Red Cloud’s Rest”--The Fairies and the Mutton-birds--The Maero of the Woods--Mount Pleasant and its _Tapu_ 61
To what, where: Rest Fairies
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter VI. Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist. 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.
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 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Fairies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 paiarehe | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 paiarehe | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 paiarehe | punct |
| 5 | Patu | Patu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 paiarehe | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Patu | punct |
| 7 | paiarehe | paiarehe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Legends | nmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 paiarehe | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fairies | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairies | det |
| 11 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Legends | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Port | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Port | det |
| 14 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fairies | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Hills | cc |
| 16 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hills | compound |
| 17 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Port | conj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mountains | punct |
| 19 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Legends | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Enchantment | case |
| 21 | Enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Mountains | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 Fairies | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Fairies | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Cloud | det |
| 25 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Cloud | flat |
| 26 | Cloud | Cloud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Fairies | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Cloud | case |
| 28 | Rest | Rest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Fairies | compound |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Rest | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 Fairies | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fairies | det |
| 32 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 birds | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 birds | det |
| 35 | Mutton | Mutton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 birds | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Mutton | punct |
| 37 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Fairies | conj |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 Maero | punct |
| 39 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Maero | det |
| 40 | Maero | Maero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 birds | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Woods | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Woods | det |
| 43 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 Maero | nmod |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 46 Pleasant | punct |
| 45 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Pleasant | compound |
| 46 | Pleasant | Pleasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Maero | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 Tapu | cc |
| 48 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 Tapu | nmod:poss |
| 49 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 50 Tapu | punct |
| 50 | Tapu | Tapu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Maero | conj |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 52 61 | punct |
| 52 | 61 | 61 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Fairies | 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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