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title: The _tino_ or exact place from which the harbour takes this name is… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _tino_ or exact place from which the harbour takes this name is Governor’s Bay, at the head of which there was a swamp filled with a thick and high growth of these reeds. Who acts: harbour, name, reeds. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, T
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 71

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The \_tino\_ or exact place from which the harbour takes this name is Governor’s Bay, at the head of which there was a swamp filled with a thick and high growth of these reeds.

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**Who acts:** harbour, name, reeds · **What happens:** take, be, fill, grow · **To what, where:** exact place, Bay, swamp, tino

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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 (harbour, name, reeds), 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:pg73766:10:71
# text = The _tino_ or exact place from which the harbour takes this name is Governor’s Bay, at the head of which there was a swamp filled with a thick and high growth of these reeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	tino	tino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the harbour |  |  | exact place |  | at the head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent from which=Source at head=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this name | Governor's Bay |  |  |  | Governor *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | a swamp *not said here* |  |  |  | with a thick growth of this reeds | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with growth=Instrument |
| 5 | **grow** |  | this reeds |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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