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title: “Whaka” here is the Ngai-Tahu dialectical form of “Whanga,” which is… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Whaka” here is the Ngai-Tahu dialectical form of “Whanga,” which is a harbour or bay, as in Whangaroa and Whanganui. Who acts: Whaka, Ngai dialectical form. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with its dependen
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 69

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“Whaka” here is the Ngai-Tahu dialectical form of “Whanga,” which is a harbour or bay, as in Whangaroa and Whanganui.

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**Who acts:** Whaka, Ngai dialectical form · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Ngai dialectical form, harbour

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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 (Whaka, Ngai dialectical form), 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:pg73766:10:69
# text = “Whaka” here is the Ngai-Tahu dialectical form of “Whanga,” which is a harbour or bay, as in Whangaroa and Whanganui.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whaka	Whaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	dialectical	dialectical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Whanga	Whanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Whangaroa	Whangaroa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Whanganui	Whanganui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Whaka | the Ngai dialectical form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Ngai dialectical form | a harbour or bay |  |  |  | of Whanga; bay *conj*; Whangaroa and Whanganui *appos* | 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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