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title: Mawete, the chief of Ngati-Mamoe, and a party of men from Manuka _pa… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mawete, the chief of Ngati-Mamoe, and a party of men from Manuka _pa_ were on their way across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks when they were ambuscaded in the bush just below Cooper’s Knobs by a band of Ngai-Tahu warriors. Who acts: band. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Por
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 57

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Mawete, the chief of Ngati-Mamoe, and a party of men from Manuka \_pa\_ were on their way across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks when they were ambuscaded in the bush just below Cooper’s Knobs by a band of Ngai-Tahu warriors.

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**Who acts:** band · **What happens:** be, ambuscade · **To what, where:** way, sharks, bush, Mawete

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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 (band), 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:pg73766:10:57
# text = Mawete, the chief of Ngati-Mamoe, and a party of men from Manuka _pa_ were on their way across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks when they were ambuscaded in the bush just below Cooper’s Knobs by a band of Ngai-Tahu warriors.
1	Mawete	Mawete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Manuka	Manuka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	ambuscaded	ambuscade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	just	just	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
42	below	below	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	Cooper	Cooper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	Knobs	Knob	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	appos	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | parties's way |  | across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks; parties *= party* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ambuscade** | past · passive | a band of Ngai and Tahu | sharks *= shark* |  | the bush |  | warriors *obj* | 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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