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title: Now, Tamatea had carried with him, in a section of a hollow _rata_ l… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, Tamatea had carried with him, in a section of a hollow _rata_ log, as was the fashion of the Maori, a smouldering fire for his nightly camps. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., with its dependency 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 22

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Now, Tamatea had carried with him, in a section of a hollow \_rata\_ log, as was the fashion of the Maori, a smouldering fire for his nightly camps.

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**What happens:** carry, be, section · **To what, where:** Tamatea, section, hollow \_ rata

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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: 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:pg73766:13:22
# text = Now, Tamatea had carried with him, in a section of a hollow _rata_ log, as was the fashion of the Maori, a smouldering fire for his nightly camps.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rata	rata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
18	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	smouldering	smouldering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	nightly	nightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tamatea |  | a section of a hollow \_ rata and log | now | with Canterbury | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in section=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the fashion; of the Maori | tree rules |
| 3 | **section** |  |  | a hollow \_ rata and log |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: of=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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