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title: _E. Cowan, photo_ ] — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: _E. Cowan, photo_ ] 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 7

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\_E. Cowan, photo\_ \]

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**To what, where:** \_

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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: 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:pg73766:12:7
# text = _E. Cowan, photo_ ]
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Cowan	Cowan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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