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title: But long-distance pedestrian Tamatea fairly has prior claim. — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But long-distance pedestrian Tamatea fairly has prior claim. Who acts: distance pedestrian. 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 89

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But long-distance pedestrian Tamatea fairly has prior claim.

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**Who acts:** distance pedestrian · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** prior claim

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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 (distance pedestrian), 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:pg73766:12:89
# text = But long-distance pedestrian Tamatea fairly has prior claim.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | distance pedestrian | prior claim |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=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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