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title: The Ngati-Mamoe chief and most of his followers were killed in the s… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ngati-Mamoe chief and most of his followers were killed in the skirmish that followed, with the Maori weapons of wood and stone, the spear, the _taiaha_, and the sharp-edged _patu_, and their bodies went into the oven, for the Maori’s commissariat in that age was the flesh of his foeman. Who act
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 58

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The Ngati-Mamoe chief and most of his followers were killed in the skirmish that followed, with the Maori weapons of wood and stone, the spear, the \_taiaha\_, and the sharp-edged \_patu\_, and their bodies went into the oven, for the Maori’s commissariat in that age was the flesh of his foeman.

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**Who acts:** skirmish, bodies, commissariat · **What happens:** kill, follow, edge, go, be · **To what, where:** Mamoe chief, skirmish, oven, flesh

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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 (skirmish, bodies, commissariat), 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:pg73766:10:58
# text = The Ngati-Mamoe chief and most of his followers were killed in the skirmish that followed, with the Maori weapons of wood and stone, the spear, the _taiaha_, and the sharp-edged _patu_, and their bodies went into the oven, for the Maori’s commissariat in that age was the flesh of his foeman.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	skirmish	skirmish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	taiaha	taiaha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
38	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	patu	patu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	commissariat	commissariat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	foeman	foeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | the Mamoe chief  most of chief's followers |  | the skirmish |  | the edged patu *obl*; the Maori weapons of wood and stone and the spear and the \_ taiaha *parataxis* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the skirmish |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | skirmishes's bodies |  |  | the oven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into oven=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the Maori's commissariat in that age | the flesh |  |  |  | of chief's foeman | 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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