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title: “Now this is what the present generation living at these places obje… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now this is what the present generation living at these places object to, the idea that their ancestors were sent there to procure food supplies for Kaiapoi. Who acts: this, present generation, idea. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki:
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 49

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“Now this is what the present generation living at these places object to, the idea that their ancestors were sent there to procure food supplies for Kaiapoi.

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**Who acts:** this, present generation, idea · **What happens:** be, live, send, procure · **To what, where:** places object, ancestors, food supplies

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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 (this, present generation, idea), 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:pg73766:12:49
# text = “Now this is what the present generation living at these places object to, the idea that their ancestors were sent there to procure food supplies for Kaiapoi.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Kaiapoi	Kaiapoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  | the present generation; now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | the present generation *not said here* |  |  | this places object |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at object=Location |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | past · passive | the idea *not said here* | Kiri's ancestors |  | there |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **procure** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the idea *not said here* | food supplies |  |  |  | for Kaiapoi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supplies=Theme for kaiapoi=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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