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title: Te Raki (or Rangi) -whakaputa was of the Ngati-Kurii section of the… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Te Raki (or Rangi) -whakaputa was of the Ngati-Kurii section of the tribe; Ngati-Kurii carried their conquest no further south than Kaikoura. Who acts: Te, Ngati. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its depen
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 40

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Te Raki (or Rangi) -whakaputa was of the Ngati-Kurii section of the tribe; Ngati-Kurii carried their conquest no further south than Kaikoura.

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**Who acts:** Te, Ngati · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** conquest

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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 (Te, Ngati), 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:pg73766:12:40
# text = Te Raki (or Rangi) -whakaputa was of the Ngati-Kurii section of the tribe; Ngati-Kurii carried their conquest no further south than Kaikoura.
1	Te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	Raki	Raki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Rangi	Rangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	whakaputa	whakaputa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Kurii	Kurii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Kurii	Kurii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
23	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	south	south	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Kaikoura	Kaikoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Te and whakaputa |  |  |  |  | of the Kurii section; of the tribe | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | Ngati | Ngati's conquest |  |  |  | south *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Theme |

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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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