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title: It means “Red-glowing Headland,” or, let us say, “Rosy Point.” — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It means “Red-glowing Headland,” or, let us say, “Rosy Point.” Who acts: tramline, us. 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 109

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It means “Red-glowing Headland,” or, let us say, “Rosy Point.”

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**Who acts:** tramline, us · **What happens:** mean, glow, let, say · **To what, where:** Red glowing Headland, us, Rosy Point · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tramline, us), 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:pg73766:10:109
# text = It means “Red-glowing Headland,” or, let us say, “Rosy Point.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	Headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | tramline | Red glowing Headland |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headland=Topic |
| 2 | **glow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | tramline *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | us *not said here* | Rosy Point |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent point=Topic |

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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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