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description: And this Homeric figure of two centuries ago, great of stature and terrible in fight, had a son whose name is scarcely less famous in the little-written traditions of the conquest of the Whanga-Raupo. Who acts: Homeric figure, son. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Z
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 32

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And this Homeric figure of two centuries ago, great of stature and terrible in fight, had a son whose name is scarcely less famous in the little-written traditions of the conquest of the Whanga-Raupo.

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**Who acts:** Homeric figure, son · **What happens:** have, be, write, figure · **To what, where:** written traditions, little, two centuries

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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 (Homeric figure, son), 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:pg73766:12:32
# text = And this Homeric figure of two centuries ago, great of stature and terrible in fight, had a son whose name is scarcely less famous in the little-written traditions of the conquest of the Whanga-Raupo.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	Homeric	homeric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	Whanga	Whanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Raupo	Raupo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this Homeric figure of two centuries |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | a son |  |  | the written traditions of the conquest of the Whanga Raupo |  | name *nsubj*; famous, less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | little |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **figure** |  |  | two centuries |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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