--- title: As a result of this attitude of his son, Tu-Rakautahi said to Te Rak… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: As a result of this attitude of his son, Tu-Rakautahi said to Te Raki, ‘You must go out to the Whaka-raupo (Lyttelton Harbour); there are sharks there for us two.’ Who acts: Tu, You, sharks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tu, You, sharks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:12:45 # text = As a result of this attitude of his son, Tu-Rakautahi said to Te Raki, ‘You must go out to the Whaka-raupo (Lyttelton Harbour); there are sharks there for us two.’ 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 attitude attitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 Tu Tu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Rakautahi Rakautahi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Te te VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 Raki Raki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 out out ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 Whaka Whaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 raupo raupo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Lyttelton Lyttelton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 Harbour Harbour PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 35 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 36 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 37 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tu and Rakautahi | | | | | as a result of this attitude of Te's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **te** | infinitive | Tu and Rakautahi *not said here* | Raki | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go out** | must | You | | | | | to the Whaka raupo; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **does** | present | sharks | | | there; there | | for us; two *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **result** | | | this attitude of Te's son | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/46/) - ↑ back to [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/)