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title: Kahukura--Uenuku in the North Island--was the principal deity for wh… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kahukura--Uenuku in the North Island--was the principal deity for what may be termed everyday use among the ancient Ngai-Tahu. Who acts: Kahukura. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with its dependency tree and
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 6

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Kahukura--Uenuku in the North Island--was the principal deity for what may be termed everyday use among the ancient Ngai-Tahu.

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**Who acts:** Kahukura · **What happens:** be, term · **To what, where:** principal deity, everyday use

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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 (Kahukura), 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:pg73766:10:6
# text = Kahukura--Uenuku in the North Island--was the principal deity for what may be termed everyday use among the ancient Ngai-Tahu.
1	Kahukura	Kahukura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Uenuku	Uenuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deity	deity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	termed	term	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kahukura and Uenuku in the North Island | the principal deity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **term** | may · passive |  | everyday use |  |  |  | for the principal deity; among the ancient Ngai Tahu | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: use=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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