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title: This chief Manuwhiri had many sons, but only one daughter, and he na… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: This chief Manuwhiri had many sons, but only one daughter, and he named his _pa_ after his solitary girl, “The Place of the One Daughter.” Who acts: chief, son. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with its depen
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 50

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This chief Manuwhiri had many sons, but only one daughter, and he named his \_pa\_ after his solitary girl, “The Place of the One Daughter.”

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**Who acts:** chief, son · **What happens:** have, name · **To what, where:** many sons, \_ pa

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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 (chief, son), 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:pg73766:10:50
# text = This chief Manuwhiri had many sons, but only one daughter, and he named his _pa_ after his solitary girl, “The Place of the One Daughter.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Manuwhiri	Manuwhiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Place	Place	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	Daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this chief | many sons but one daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | past | son | son's \_ pa |  |  | after son's solitary girl |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pa=Theme |

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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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