---
title: Like the other _hapus_ of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, the Ngati-Irakehu and… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the other _hapus_ of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, the Ngati-Irakehu and their kin are now half-_pakeha_ in blood; they have intermarried with their European neighbours, and their little township, with its sixty odd souls, is scarcely to be taken at first sight for a Maori settlement. Who acts: Ngati Ir
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/3/)

<!-- 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/) / 3

# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like the other \_hapus\_ of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, the Ngati-Irakehu and their kin are now half-\_pakeha\_ in blood; they have intermarried with their European neighbours, and their little township, with its sixty odd souls, is scarcely to be taken at first sight for a Maori settlement.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Ngati Irakehu, church, little township · **What happens:** be, intermarry, take · **To what, where:** pakeha, sight

<!-- .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 (Ngati Irakehu, church, little township), 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:pg73766:12:3
# text = Like the other _hapus_ of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, the Ngati-Irakehu and their kin are now half-_pakeha_ in blood; they have intermarried with their European neighbours, and their little township, with its sixty odd souls, is scarcely to be taken at first sight for a Maori settlement.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hapus	hapus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
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	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Irakehu	Irakehu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	intermarried	intermarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	parataxis	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	township	township	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
47	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	advcl	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	57	advmod	_	_
57	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	Maori	maori	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Ngati Irakehu and church's kin | pakeha |  |  | now | like the other hapus of the Tahu tribe; blood *obl*; half *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **intermarry** | present · perfect | church |  |  |  |  | with church's European neighbours | vn amalgamate-22.2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with neighbour=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | church's little township and blood's sixty odd souls |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | church's little township and blood's sixty odd souls *not said here* |  |  | sight |  | for a Maori settlement | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for settlement=Beneficiary |

<!-- .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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/4/)
- ↑ back to [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/)