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title: One of these parties of the _tangata-whenua_, the people of the land… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: One of these parties of the _tangata-whenua_, the people of the land, he met in battle on the rocky beach of Ohinehou where the white man’s breakwaters and wharves now stand. Who acts: One, breakwaters. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The P
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 31

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One of these parties of the \_tangata-whenua\_, the people of the land, he met in battle on the rocky beach of Ohinehou where the white man’s breakwaters and wharves now stand.

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**Who acts:** One, breakwaters · **What happens:** meet, stand · **To what, where:** battle

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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 (One, breakwaters), 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:pg73766:10:31
# text = One of these parties of the _tangata-whenua_, the people of the land, he met in battle on the rocky beach of Ohinehou where the white man’s breakwaters and wharves now stand.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tangata	tangata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	whenua	whenua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ohinehou	Ohinehou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	breakwaters	breakwater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	wharves	wharf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **meet** | past | One of this parties of the tangata whenua  the people of the land |  |  | battle |  | on the rocky beach of Ohinehou; warrior *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the white man's breakwaters and wharves |  |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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