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title: Mount Pleasant, where a Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ once stood, was known to th… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mount Pleasant, where a Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ once stood, was known to the Maoris as Tauhinu-Korokio, a combination of two names of shrubs common to the ranges. Who acts: Ngati Mamoe. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Name
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 24

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Mount Pleasant, where a Ngati-Mamoe \_pa\_ once stood, was known to the Maoris as Tauhinu-Korokio, a combination of two names of shrubs common to the ranges.

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**Who acts:** Ngati Mamoe · **What happens:** stand, know, name · **To what, where:** Mount Pleasant, shrubs

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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 (Ngati Mamoe), 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:pg73766:10:24
# text = Mount Pleasant, where a Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ once stood, was known to the Maoris as Tauhinu-Korokio, a combination of two names of shrubs common to the ranges.
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Pleasant	Pleasant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Tauhinu	Tauhinu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Korokio	Korokio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a Ngati Mamoe |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | Mount Pleasant |  |  |  | to the Maoris as Tauhinu and Korokio | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | shrubs |  |  |  |  | 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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