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title: It is a dignified survivor of the woodlands of the Rapaki-a-Te Rangi… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a dignified survivor of the woodlands of the Rapaki-a-Te Rangi-whakaputa. Who acts: tree. 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 62

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It is a dignified survivor of the woodlands of the Rapaki-a-Te Rangi-whakaputa.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** dignify, be · **To what, where:** dignified survivor

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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 (tree), 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:pg73766:12:62
# text = It is a dignified survivor of the woodlands of the Rapaki-a-Te Rangi-whakaputa.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dignified	dignify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	survivor	survivor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
11	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	Rangi	Rangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	whakaputa	whakaputa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dignify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | tree | a dignified survivor |  |  |  | of the woodlands of the Te whakaputa  Rapaki | tree rules |

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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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