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title: Kiri-Mahinahina he sent out to Paanau: ‘Go yonder and catch hapuku f… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kiri-Mahinahina he sent out to Paanau: ‘Go yonder and catch hapuku for us.’ Who acts: Kiri. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 48

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Kiri-Mahinahina he sent out to Paanau: ‘Go yonder and catch hapuku for us.’

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**Who acts:** Kiri · **What happens:** send out, go, catch · **To what, where:** Paanau, hapuku

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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 (Kiri), 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:pg73766:12:48
# text = Kiri-Mahinahina he sent out to Paanau: ‘Go yonder and catch hapuku for us.’
1	Kiri	Kiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mahinahina	Mahinahina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Paanau	Paanau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	hapuku	hapuku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past | Kiri and Mahinahina |  | Paanau |  |  | patiki *nsubj* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to paanau=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | infinitive |  | hapuku |  |  |  | for us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hapuku=Theme for we=Beneficiary |

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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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