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title: All these harbour-front villages and camping-grounds he captured fro… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: All these harbour-front villages and camping-grounds he captured from the Ngati-Mamoe who, as Tikao says, were the fourth _iwi_--race or tribe--to occupy the Who acts: front villages, Tikao. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 29

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All these harbour-front villages and camping-grounds he captured from the Ngati-Mamoe who, as Tikao says, were the fourth \_iwi\_--race or tribe--to occupy the

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**Who acts:** front villages, Tikao · **What happens:** capture, say, be, occupy · **To what, where:** Ngati Mamoe, fourth iwi, the · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (front villages, Tikao), 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:pg73766:12:29
# text = All these harbour-front villages and camping-grounds he captured from the Ngati-Mamoe who, as Tikao says, were the fourth _iwi_--race or tribe--to occupy the
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	camping	camping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	iwi	iwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	occupy	occupy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	obj	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | all front villages and camping grounds |  |  | the Ngati Mamoe |  | whakaputa *nsubj* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mamoe=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tikao |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the fourth iwi |  |  |  | race or tribe *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **occupy** | to-infinitive | all front villages and camping grounds *not said here* | the |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus the=Experiencer |

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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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