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title: There is a spot on the eastern bank of the Whakahume (the Cam), abou… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a spot on the eastern bank of the Whakahume (the Cam), about half a mile from the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, named Te Pa o Te Rakiwhakaputa. Who acts: spot. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its depend
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 43

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There is a spot on the eastern bank of the Whakahume (the Cam), about half a mile from the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, named Te Pa o Te Rakiwhakaputa.

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**Who acts:** spot · **What happens:** be, name

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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 (spot), 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:pg73766:12:43
# text = There is a spot on the eastern bank of the Whakahume (the Cam), about half a mile from the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, named Te Pa o Te Rakiwhakaputa.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Whakahume	Whakahume	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Cam	cam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Kaiapoi	Kaiapoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Woollen	Woollen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Mills	Mills	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
28	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Pa	Pa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
30	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	31	case	_	_
31	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	Rakiwhakaputa	Rakiwhakaputa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a spot on the eastern bank of the Whakahume |  |  | there |  | half mile from the Woollen Mills *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of Te; Te Pa *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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