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title: The _Kaumatua_ of Rapaki, the pleasant-mannered kindly greybeard, Ho… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Kaumatua_ of Rapaki, the pleasant-mannered kindly greybeard, Hone Taare Tikao, a gentleman of true _rangatira_ breeding and demeanour, is the best informed man of his tribe-remnant on the Peninsula and Port Hills history and legends and genealogical recitals--_whakapapa_ in the Maori tongue. Wh
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 16

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The \_Kaumatua\_ of Rapaki, the pleasant-mannered kindly greybeard, Hone Taare Tikao, a gentleman of true \_rangatira\_ breeding and demeanour, is the best informed man of his tribe-remnant on the Peninsula and Port Hills history and legends and genealogical recitals--\_whakapapa\_ in the Maori tongue.

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**Who acts:** Kaumatua \_ · **What happens:** inform, be, hill · **To what, where:** best informed man, history

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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 (Kaumatua \_), 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:pg73766:12:16
# text = The _Kaumatua_ of Rapaki, the pleasant-mannered kindly greybeard, Hone Taare Tikao, a gentleman of true _rangatira_ breeding and demeanour, is the best informed man of his tribe-remnant on the Peninsula and Port Hills history and legends and genealogical recitals--_whakapapa_ in the Maori tongue.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Kaumatua	Kaumatua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	mannered	mannered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	greybeard	greybeard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hone	hone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	Taare	Taare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	rangatira	rangatira	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
26	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	demeanour	demeanour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
33	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	Hills	hill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
46	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	genealogical	genealogical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	recitals	recital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	whakapapa	whakapapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	54	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Kaumatua \_ of Rapaki | the best informed man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hill** | present |  | history |  |  |  | of \_'s tribe remnant on the Peninsula and Port; legends and genealogical recitals and whakapapa in the Maori tongue *conj* | tree rules |

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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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