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title: She has made the acquaintance of the truculent _ongaonga_. — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: She has made the acquaintance of the truculent _ongaonga_. Who acts: class. 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 84

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She has made the acquaintance of the truculent \_ongaonga\_.

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**Who acts:** class · **What happens:** make, acquaint · **To what, where:** acquaintance, truculent ongaonga

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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: who acts (class), 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:pg73766:11:84
# text = She has made the acquaintance of the truculent _ongaonga_.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	truculent	truculent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ongaonga	ongaonga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect | class | the acquaintance of the truculent ongaonga |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product |
| 2 | **acquaint** |  |  | the truculent ongaonga |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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