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description: So when the Natives gave the term to the Castle Rock they were conferring upon it a name of high _tapu_ befitting its bold and commanding appearance. Who acts: Natives. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with i
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 12

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So when the Natives gave the term to the Castle Rock they were conferring upon it a name of high \_tapu\_ befitting its bold and commanding appearance.

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**Who acts:** Natives · **What happens:** give, confer, befit, command, name · **To what, where:** term, Castle Rock, name, bold, appearance, high tapu · **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 (Natives), 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:pg73766:10:12
# text = So when the Natives gave the term to the Castle Rock they were conferring upon it a name of high _tapu_ befitting its bold and commanding appearance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Natives	Native	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	conferring	confer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tapu	tapu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
24	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	commanding	command	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
29	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Natives | the term | the Castle Rock |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent term=Theme to rock=Recipient |
| 2 | **confer** | past · progressive | Natives *= native* | a name of high tapu |  |  |  | upon term | tree rules |
| 3 | **befit** | gerund | Natives *= native* *not said here* | term's bold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **command** | gerund | Natives *= native* *not said here* | appearance |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent appearance=Eventuality |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | high tapu |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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