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title: It suited this enterprising warrior, who is described by his descend… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It suited this enterprising warrior, who is described by his descendant Taare Tikao as a great _toa_ or brave. Who acts: name, descendant. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 27

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It suited this enterprising warrior, who is described by his descendant Taare Tikao as a great \_toa\_ or brave.

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**Who acts:** name, descendant · **What happens:** suit, describe · **To what, where:** enterprising warrior

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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 (name, descendant), 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:pg73766:12:27
# text = It suited this enterprising warrior, who is described by his descendant Taare Tikao as a great _toa_ or brave.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	enterprising	enterprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	Taare	Taare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	toa	toa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suit** | past | name | this enterprising warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | present · passive | whakaputa's descendant | this enterprising warrior |  |  |  | as a great toa | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as toa=Attribute |

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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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