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title: The name has fittingly enough been given by Mr. Ell to the stone hou… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The name has fittingly enough been given by Mr. Ell to the stone house for visitors which stands under the ribbonwood trees at the head of the Kennedy’s Bush Valley. Who acts: Ell, visitors. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills an
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 40

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The name has fittingly enough been given by Mr. Ell to the stone house for visitors which stands under the ribbonwood trees at the head of the Kennedy’s Bush Valley.

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**Who acts:** Ell, visitors · **What happens:** give, stand · **To what, where:** name, stone house, ribbonwood trees

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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 (Ell, visitors), 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:pg73766:10:40
# text = The name has fittingly enough been given by Mr. Ell to the stone house for visitors which stands under the ribbonwood trees at the head of the Kennedy’s Bush Valley.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	fittingly	fittingly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Ell	Ell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ribbonwood	ribbonwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	Bush	Bush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect · passive | Ell  Mr. | the name | the stone house for visitors |  |  | enough, fittingly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to house=Recipient |
| 2 | **stand** | present | visitors |  |  | the ribbonwood trees |  | at the head of the Kennedy's Bush Valley | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |

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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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