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title: From Tikao, too, we hear something of the poetic legend and nature-m… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: From Tikao, too, we hear something of the poetic legend and nature-myth that steep those swart hills above Rapaki. Who acts: we. 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 e
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 97

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From Tikao, too, we hear something of the poetic legend and nature-myth that steep those swart hills above Rapaki.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** something, Tikao

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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 (we), 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:pg73766:12:97
# text = From Tikao, too, we hear something of the poetic legend and nature-myth that steep those swart hills above Rapaki.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	swart	swart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
22	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | we | something of the poetic legend and nature myth |  | Tikao |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Topic from tikao=Source |

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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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