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title: The peak of “Tamatea’s Breast,” is one of the very few landscape sal… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The peak of “Tamatea’s Breast,” is one of the very few landscape saliencies in these parts which still remain in the hands of the people of Takitimu descent. Who acts: peak, few. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to W
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 11

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The peak of “Tamatea’s Breast,” is one of the very few landscape saliencies in these parts which still remain in the hands of the people of Takitimu descent.

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**Who acts:** peak, few · **What happens:** be, landscape, remain · **To what, where:** one, saliencies, parts, hands

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peak, few), 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:pg73766:13:11
# text = The peak of “Tamatea’s Breast,” is one of the very few landscape saliencies in these parts which still remain in the hands of the people of Takitimu descent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	landscape	landscape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	saliencies	saliency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Takitimu	Takitimu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the peak of Tamatea's Breast | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **landscape** | present | the few | saliencies |  | this parts |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | present |  | this parts |  | the hands of the people of Takitimu descent | still |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute |

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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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