--- title: «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by Jam… — the whole book with trees and pragmatics description: The whole of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, chapter by chapter: 518 sentences, every one with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause, parsed by Mova. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca… # «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan The whole of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA): 15 chapters, 518 sentences. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Mova parsed them all itself; 0 are also in the tales treebank of release 0.3 and keep their checked tree. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/1/) — Canterbury, New Zealand — 1 sentences · \_By\_ - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/2/) — Whitcombe & Tombs Limited — 14 sentences · Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/3/) — Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks — 1 sentences · The Port Hills and their geological history--The Dead Fire-Cones--“The Fire of Tamatea”--Bold Cliff and Moun… - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/4/) — Chapter II. The Port Hills and Their Names — 1 sentences · Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range--Hills of the Rainbow God--“The Pinnacle of Kahukura”--Crags of the Sou… - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/5/) — Chapter III. Round the Sugarloaf — 1 sentences · The Flanks of Te Heru-o-Kahukura--Tracks on the Mountain Side--At Dyer’s Pass--Maori Name of Marley’s Hill--… - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/6/) — Chapter IV. Rapaki: A Village by the Sea — 1 sentences · The Bell on the Ribbonwood Tree--Tikao and his Traditions--The Days of the Ngati-Mamoe--Te Rangiwhakaputa’s… - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/7/) — Chapter V. — 2 sentences · The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/8/) — Chapter VI. Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist — 1 sentences · Legends of the \_Patu-paiarehe\_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsula Hills--Mountains of Enchantment--“The… - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/9/) — The Story of the Rocks. — 30 sentences · With the opening of tracks along the bold range of heights between the Canterbury Plains and Lyttelton Harbo… - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/) — The Port Hills and Their Names. — 113 sentences · It is the Port Hills’ nomenclature, perhaps, that carries the most poetic suggestions of any of the Canterbu… - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/) — “the Crest of the Rainbow.” — 87 sentences · The saying that the best place to see the mountains is from below, not from their summits, may properly be q… - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/) — Rapaki: a Village By the Sea. — 112 sentences · In the little Maori \_kainga\_ of Rapaki, folded away in a valley-fan of Lyttelton harbour-side, there is a ti… - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/13/) — How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill. — 61 sentences · As we travel northward along the Summit Track from the Poho-o-Tamatea, observing from this commanding height… - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/14/) — The Little People of the Mist. — 73 sentences · Our talk turned one day to the poetic legendary past of the Port Hills above us and the Banks Peninsula peak… - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/15/) — Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.” — 20 sentences · Now the Old Man’s memories take him back seawards across the Port Hills to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu-Ko…