--- title: Looking out from the Port Hills the olden Maori wayfarer surveyed th… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking out from the Port Hills the olden Maori wayfarer surveyed the far-spreading Plains and the name handed down from the days of the Waitaha tribe, the forerunners of the Ngati-Mamoe, came to his lips: “Nga Pakihi Whakatekateka a Waitaha.” Who acts: Looking, olden Maori wayfarer, far spreading P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/91/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) / [The Port Hills and Their Names.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/) / 91 # Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 91 Looking out from the Port Hills the olden Maori wayfarer surveyed the far-spreading Plains and the name handed down from the days of the Waitaha tribe, the forerunners of the Ngati-Mamoe, came to his lips: “Nga Pakihi Whakatekateka a Waitaha.” **Who acts:** Looking, olden Maori wayfarer, far spreading Plains · **What happens:** look out, hill, survey, spread, hand down, come · **To what, where:** Port, name, Pakihi Whakatekateka, lips 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 (Looking, olden Maori wayfarer, far spreading Plains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:10:91 # text = Looking out from the Port Hills the olden Maori wayfarer surveyed the far-spreading Plains and the name handed down from the days of the Waitaha tribe, the forerunners of the Ngati-Mamoe, came to his lips: “Nga Pakihi Whakatekateka a Waitaha.” 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 Hills hill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 olden olden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 Maori Maori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 wayfarer wayfarer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 surveyed survey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 Plains Plain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Waitaha Waitaha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 forerunners forerunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 appos _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 Ngati Ngati PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Mamoe Mamoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 43 “ " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Nga Nga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Pakihi Pakihi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Whakatekateka Whakatekateka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Waitaha Waitaha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look out** | gerund | | | | the Port | | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hill** | present | Looking | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **survey** | past | the olden Maori wayfarer | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spread** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hand down** | participle | | the name *not said here* | | | day | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** | past | the far spreading Plains and the name | Pakihi Whakatekateka | | wayfarer's lips | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lip=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/92/) - ↑ back to [The Port Hills and Their Names.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/10/)