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title: It is an historic and appropriate name, carrying one back to the anc… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is an historic and appropriate name, carrying one back to the ancient days when the brown sailors hauled their long canoes up on its little shelving beach. Who acts: papa, brown sailors. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 81

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It is an historic and appropriate name, carrying one back to the ancient days when the brown sailors hauled their long canoes up on its little shelving beach.

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**Who acts:** papa, brown sailors · **What happens:** be, carry back, haul up · **To what, where:** historic name, one, long canoes, little shelving beach

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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 (papa, brown sailors), 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:pg73766:10:81
# text = It is an historic and appropriate name, carrying one back to the ancient days when the brown sailors hauled their long canoes up on its little shelving beach.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	nmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hauled	haul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	shelving	shelving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | papa | a historic name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry back** | gerund |  | one |  |  | day |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **haul up** | past | the brown sailors | names's long canoes |  | papa's little shelving beach |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=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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