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title: The upper part of the Heathcote was the O-mokihi or “The Place of Fl… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The upper part of the Heathcote was the O-mokihi or “The Place of Flax-Stalk Rafts.” Who acts: upper part. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 104

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The upper part of the Heathcote was the O-mokihi or “The Place of Flax-Stalk Rafts.”

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**Who acts:** upper part · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** O mokihi

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (upper part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:10:104
# text = The upper part of the Heathcote was the O-mokihi or “The Place of Flax-Stalk Rafts.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Heathcote	Heathcote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	mokihi	mokihi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Place	Place	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Flax	Flax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Stalk	Stalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	Rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the upper part of the Heathcote | the O mokihi |  |  |  | the Place of Flax and Stalk and Rafts *parataxis* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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