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title: Legend, too, says that Tamatea settled awhile at the foot of the Can… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Legend, too, says that Tamatea settled awhile at the foot of the Canoe Mountains, and that he had a camp village at the lower end of Lake Te Anau, where eels and birds were abundant. Who acts: Legend, Tamatea, eels. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 17

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Legend, too, says that Tamatea settled awhile at the foot of the Canoe Mountains, and that he had a camp village at the lower end of Lake Te Anau, where eels and birds were abundant.

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**Who acts:** Legend, Tamatea, eels · **What happens:** say, settle, have, be · **To what, where:** foot, camp village, lower end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Legend, Tamatea, eels), 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:pg73766:13:17
# text = Legend, too, says that Tamatea settled awhile at the foot of the Canoe Mountains, and that he had a camp village at the lower end of Lake Te Anau, where eels and birds were abundant.
1	Legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Canoe	Canoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Anau	Anau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
35	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Legend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **settle** | past | Tamatea |  |  | the foot of the Canoe Mountains |  | awhile *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | Tamatea | a camp village |  |  | at the lower end of Lake Te Anau |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | eels and birds |  |  |  |  | abundant *property* | tree rules |

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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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