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title: It takes its _pakeha_ name from the peculiar characteristics of the… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It takes its _pakeha_ name from the peculiar characteristics of the inner bark, which is tough and strong of fibre and beautifully netted and perforated. Who acts: It, inner bark. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 68

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It takes its \_pakeha\_ name from the peculiar characteristics of the inner bark, which is tough and strong of fibre and beautifully netted and perforated.

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**Who acts:** It, inner bark · **What happens:** take, be, net, perforate · **To what, where:** \_ pakeha, peculiar characteristics

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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 (It, inner bark), 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:pg73766:12:68
# text = It takes its _pakeha_ name from the peculiar characteristics of the inner bark, which is tough and strong of fibre and beautifully netted and perforated.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fibre	fibre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	netted	net	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	perforated	perforate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | It | North's \_ pakeha |  | the peculiar characteristics of the inner bark |  | name *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pakeha=Theme from characteristic=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the inner bark |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the inner bark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of fibre | tree rules |
| 4 | **net** | participle | the inner bark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **perforate** | participle | the inner bark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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