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title: (Like several other New Zealand trees the fruit of the _kotukutuku_… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: (Like several other New Zealand trees the fruit of the _kotukutuku_ is given a different name from the plant itself.) A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, 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 Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 47

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(Like several other New Zealand trees the fruit of the \_kotukutuku\_ is given a different name from the plant itself.)

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** fruit, plant

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73766:11:47
# text = (Like several other New Zealand trees the fruit of the _kotukutuku_ is given a different name from the plant itself.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	kotukutuku	kotukutuku	X	FW	_	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | the fruit of the kotukutuku \_ |  | the plant  fruit |  | like several other Zealand trees; a different name *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=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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