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title: Some, those of the chief men, Te Rangi-whakaputa placed in a flax ba… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some, those of the chief men, Te Rangi-whakaputa placed in a flax basket, and, bearing them up to the craggy hill-crest that towered above the beach, he set them down on a lofty pinnacle, an offering to his god of battles. Who acts: warrior, craggy hill crest. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 33

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Some, those of the chief men, Te Rangi-whakaputa placed in a flax basket, and, bearing them up to the craggy hill-crest that towered above the beach, he set them down on a lofty pinnacle, an offering to his god of battles.

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**Who acts:** warrior, craggy hill crest · **What happens:** place, bear up, tower, set down · **To what, where:** Te whakaputa, flax basket, breakwaters, beach, lofty pinnacle

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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 (warrior, craggy hill crest), 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:pg73766:10:33
# text = Some, those of the chief men, Te Rangi-whakaputa placed in a flax basket, and, bearing them up to the craggy hill-crest that towered above the beach, he set them down on a lofty pinnacle, an offering to his god of battles.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	Rangi	Rangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	whakaputa	whakaputa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	craggy	craggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	towered	tower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	above	above	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	pinnacle	pinnacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **place** | participle |  | that Te whakaputa *not said here* |  | a flax basket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=Destination |
| 2 | **bear up** | gerund | warrior *not said here* | breakwaters *= breakwater* |  |  |  | to the craggy hill crest | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **tower** | past | the craggy hill crest |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above beach=Location |
| 4 | **set down** | past | warrior | breakwaters *= breakwater* |  | a lofty pinnacle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pinnacle=Destination |

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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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