--- title: The Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago and are famous for carving, tattooing, the haka and their navigation. Who acts: Māori, haka. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Māori, haka), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:12 # text = The Māori arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago and are famous for carving, tattooing, the haka and their navigation. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Aotearoa Aotearoa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 New New PROPN NNP _ 5 appos _ _ 8 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Polynesia Polynesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 700 700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 15 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 carving carve NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 tattooing tattoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 haka haka NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 navigation navigation NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | the Māori | | | Aotearoa | | from Polynesia; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from polynesia=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the Māori *not said here* | | | | | for carving and tattooing; famous *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **navigate** | | haka | | | | | | nom navigation «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:12`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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