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title: And the lofty Sugarloaf peak immediately to the north of Dyer’s Pass… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the lofty Sugarloaf peak immediately to the north of Dyer’s Pass, was Te Heru o Kahukura, which being interpreted, is “Kahukura’s Head-Comb.” Who acts: lofty Sugarloaf peak, Te Heru. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Th
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 16

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And the lofty Sugarloaf peak immediately to the north of Dyer’s Pass, was Te Heru o Kahukura, which being interpreted, is “Kahukura’s Head-Comb.”

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**Who acts:** lofty Sugarloaf peak, Te Heru · **What happens:** be, interpret · **To what, where:** Te Heru, Kahukura, Head Comb

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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 (lofty Sugarloaf peak, Te Heru), 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:pg73766:10:16
# text = And the lofty Sugarloaf peak immediately to the north of Dyer’s Pass, was Te Heru o Kahukura, which being interpreted, is “Kahukura’s Head-Comb.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Sugarloaf	sugarloaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Dyer	Dyer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Heru	Heru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
18	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	19	case	_	_
19	Kahukura	Kahukura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	interpreted	interpret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Kahukura	Kahukura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	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 lofty Sugarloaf peak | Te Heru |  |  |  | of Kahukura | tree rules |
| 2 | **interpret** | gerund · passive |  | Kahukura |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Te Heru | Head Comb |  |  |  |  | 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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