--- title: New Zealand's Māori electorates, set up in 1867, are seats for voter… — Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Austr… · tree and pragmatics description: New Zealand's Māori electorates, set up in 1867, are seats for voters on the Māori roll; the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 is a founding agreement between Māori chiefs and the British Crown. Who acts: Māori electorates, Treaty. 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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 electorates, Treaty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:15 # text = New Zealand's Māori electorates, set up in 1867, are seats for voters on the Māori roll; the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 is a founding agreement between Māori chiefs and the British Crown. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 2 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 electorates electorate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1867 1867 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 voters voter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Māori Māori ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 19 roll roll NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Waitangi Waitangi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1840 1840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 founding founding NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 31 between between ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | participle | | New Zealand's Māori electorates *not said here* | | 1867 | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1867=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | New Zealand's Māori electorates | seats | | | | for voters on the Māori roll | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 | a founding agreement | | | | between Māori chiefs and the British Crown | 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. **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:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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