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title: The Maoris of the north call it _whauwhi_ and _houhere_, here it is… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maoris of the north call it _whauwhi_ and _houhere_, here it is _houhi_ or _houi_. Who acts: Maoris. 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 67

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The Maoris of the north call it \_whauwhi\_ and \_houhere\_, here it is \_houhi\_ or \_houi\_.

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**Who acts:** Maoris · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** North, houhi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Maoris), 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:pg73766:12:67
# text = The Maoris of the north call it _whauwhi_ and _houhere_, here it is _houhi_ or _houi_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	whauwhi	whauwhi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	houhere	houhere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	houhi	houhi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	houi	houi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the Maoris of the north | North |  |  |  | whauwhi and houhere *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Maoris | houhi |  |  |  |  | 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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