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title: But those enormous _kupengas_ will never again be hauled through the… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But those enormous _kupengas_ will never again be hauled through the fish-teeming waters. 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 96

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But those enormous \_kupengas\_ will never again be hauled through the fish-teeming waters.

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**What happens:** haul, teem · **To what, where:** enormous kupengas, teeming waters

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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:pg73766:12:96
# text = But those enormous _kupengas_ will never again be hauled through the fish-teeming waters.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	_	_	X	GW	_	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	kupengas	kupenga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hauled	haul	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	teeming	teem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | future · passive |  | that enormous kupengas |  | the teeming waters | again; never |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **teem** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fish *compound* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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