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title: The mat-kilted conquistador of old who gave his name to the place ha… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mat-kilted conquistador of old who gave his name to the place had an eye for a secure, well-hidden site for his _pa_. Who acts: kilted conquistador, conquistador. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its d
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 55

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The mat-kilted conquistador of old who gave his name to the place had an eye for a secure, well-hidden site for his \_pa\_.

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**Who acts:** kilted conquistador, conquistador · **What happens:** kilt, give, have, hide, name · **To what, where:** name, place, eye

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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 (kilted conquistador, conquistador), 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:pg73766:12:55
# text = The mat-kilted conquistador of old who gave his name to the place had an eye for a secure, well-hidden site for his _pa_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	kilted	kilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	conquistador	conquistador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
20	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	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 | **kilt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | mat *compound* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the kilted conquistador of old | conquistador's name | the place |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to place=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | the kilted conquistador of old | a eye |  |  |  | for a secure hidden site for conquistador's \_ pa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | conquistador |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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