---
title: (No Kipling monopoly in the phrase: “Bury me here,” said old Major P… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: (No Kipling monopoly in the phrase: “Bury me here,” said old Major Pokiha, of the Arawa, a fighting chief of the last generation--“bury me here as salt for the lands of my heroes”). Who acts: Kipling monopoly. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/) / 13

# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
(No Kipling monopoly in the phrase: “Bury me here,” said old Major Pokiha, of the Arawa, a fighting chief of the last generation--“bury me here as salt for the lands of my heroes”).

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Kipling monopoly · **What happens:** bury, say, fight · **To what, where:** Kipling monopoly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Kipling monopoly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:12:13
# text = (No Kipling monopoly in the phrase: “Bury me here,” said old Major Pokiha, of the Arawa, a fighting chief of the last generation--“bury me here as salt for the lands of my heroes”).
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	monopoly	monopoly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Bury	bury	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Pokiha	Pokiha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Arawa	Arawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase *= monopoly* |  | here |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase |  |  |  |  | old Major Pokiha and the Arawa *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase *not said here* | no Kipling monopoly in the phrase *= monopoly* |  | here |  | as salt; for the lands of my heroes | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/12/)
- next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/14/)
- ↑ back to [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/)