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title: A sufficiently grim name this, remindful of the Whanga-raupo’s red a… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sufficiently grim name this, remindful of the Whanga-raupo’s red and cannibal past, for the heads were human ones. 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 claus
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 29

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A sufficiently grim name this, remindful of the Whanga-raupo’s red and cannibal past, for the heads were human ones.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** human ones

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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: 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:pg73766:10:29
# text = A sufficiently grim name this, remindful of the Whanga-raupo’s red and cannibal past, for the heads were human ones.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	remindful	remindful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Whanga	Whanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	raupo	raupo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cannibal	cannibal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	past	past	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | human ones |  |  |  | for the heads | 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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