Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 18
The Maoris, with a quick eye for such significant topographical features, gave the place a name which blends history with legend, “Wheke’s Sleeping Place.”
Who acts: Maoris, name · What happens: give, blend · To what, where: place, history
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Story of the Rocks.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maoris, name), 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 Maoris | det |
| 2 | Maoris | Maoris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eye | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eye | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 eye | det |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eye | amod |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Maoris | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 features | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 features | amod |
| 10 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 features | amod |
| 11 | topographical | topographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 features | amod |
| 12 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eye | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Maoris | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 blends | nsubj |
| 20 | blends | blend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 name | acl:relcl |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blends | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 legend | case |
| 23 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blends | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Place | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Place | punct |
| 26 | Wheke | Wheke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Sleeping | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Wheke | case |
| 28 | Sleeping | Sleeping | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Place | compound |
| 29 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 legend | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Maoris | the place | a name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent place=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 2 | blend | present | a name | history | with legend and Sleeping Place | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent history=Patient with legend=Co-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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