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title: It is the song crooned by the women and the children in every _kaing… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the song crooned by the women and the children in every _kainga_ that, like slumbrous little Rapaki down yonder, sent its young men to use rifle and bayonet beside their _pakeha_ brothers-in-arms on the thundering battlefields half a world away. Who acts: spirit, slumbrous little Rapaki. A sen
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 112

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It is the song crooned by the women and the children in every \_kainga\_ that, like slumbrous little Rapaki down yonder, sent its young men to use rifle and bayonet beside their \_pakeha\_ brothers-in-arms on the thundering battlefields half a world away.

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**Who acts:** spirit, slumbrous little Rapaki · **What happens:** be, croon, send, use · **To what, where:** song, kainga, young men, rifle, \_ pakeha

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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 (spirit, slumbrous little Rapaki), 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:pg73766:12:112
# text = It is the song crooned by the women and the children in every _kainga_ that, like slumbrous little Rapaki down yonder, sent its young men to use rifle and bayonet beside their _pakeha_ brothers-in-arms on the thundering battlefields half a world away.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	crooned	croon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	kainga	kainga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	slumbrous	slumbrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	rifle	rifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	bayonet	bayonet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	_
40	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	thundering	thundering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	battlefields	battlefield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
49	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | spirit | the song |  |  |  | that *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **croon** *speech: other* | participle |  | the song *not said here* |  | every kainga |  | by the women and the children | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | past | slumbrous little Rapaki | spirit's young men |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | slumbrous little Rapaki *not said here* | rifle and bayonet |  | rifle's \_ pakeha |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rifle=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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