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title: That patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long will s… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: That patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long will show the first shoots of _kaanga_, or maize; there is not much grown in this island except by the Natives. Who acts: patch, much. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a V
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 100

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That patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long will show the first shoots of \_kaanga\_, or maize; there is not much grown in this island except by the Natives.

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**Who acts:** patch, much · **What happens:** plough, show, be, grow · **To what, where:** first shoots, island

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patch, much), 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:pg73766:12:100
# text = That patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long will show the first shoots of _kaanga_, or maize; there is not much grown in this island except by the Natives.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ploughed	plough	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	kaanga	kaanga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
28	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	except	except	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Natives	Native	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plough** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | future | that patch of ploughed land behind the settlement before long | the first shoots of kaanga |  |  |  | maize *conj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shoot=Recipient |
| 3 | **be** | present | much |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  | this island except the Natives |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location |

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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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