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title: Herbert--with its level top, where a lofty _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe stood… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Herbert--with its level top, where a lofty _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe stood three centuries ago. Who acts: Herbert. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 62

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Herbert--with its level top, where a lofty \_pa\_ of Ngati-Mamoe stood three centuries ago.

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**Who acts:** Herbert · **What happens:** stand

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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 (Herbert), 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:pg73766:10:62
# text = Herbert--with its level top, where a lofty _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe stood three centuries ago.
1	Herbert	Herbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Herbert |  |  |  |  | of Ngati Mamoe; ago *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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