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title: And over the doorway of the large meeting hall in the village of Rap… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And over the doorway of the large meeting hall in the village of Rapaki you will see the name of Wheke painted, in memory of a brown hero whose bones have been dust these two hundred years. Who acts: you, name, bones. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by Jam
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 36

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And over the doorway of the large meeting hall in the village of Rapaki you will see the name of Wheke painted, in memory of a brown hero whose bones have been dust these two hundred years.

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**Who acts:** you, name, bones · **What happens:** see, paint, be, name · **To what, where:** doorway, memory, dust, Wheke · **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 (you, name, bones), 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:pg73766:12:36
# text = And over the doorway of the large meeting hall in the village of Rapaki you will see the name of Wheke painted, in memory of a brown hero whose bones have been dust these two hundred years.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Wheke	Wheke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	compound	_	_
37	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | future | you |  |  | the doorway of the large meeting hall in the village of Rapaki |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **paint** | past | the name of Wheke |  |  | memory of a brown hero and dust |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in memory=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present · perfect | dust's bones | dust |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Wheke |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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