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title: But it seems that Tamatea’s fire so carefully tended by the gods wen… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it seems that Tamatea’s fire so carefully tended by the gods went out as he travelled slowly up the hills from Otago, and none had been kindled again when he reached the Port Hills. Who acts: it, gods, Maoris, Tamatea. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» b
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 30

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But it seems that Tamatea’s fire so carefully tended by the gods went out as he travelled slowly up the hills from Otago, and none had been kindled again when he reached the Port Hills.

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**Who acts:** it, gods, Maoris, Tamatea · **What happens:** seem, tend, go out, travel, kindle, reach · **To what, where:** fire, hills, none, Port Hills

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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 (it, gods, Maoris, Tamatea), 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:pg73766:13:30
# text = But it seems that Tamatea’s fire so carefully tended by the gods went out as he travelled slowly up the hills from Otago, and none had been kindled again when he reached the Port Hills.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tended	tend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Otago	Otago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Hills	Hill	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | it | Tamatea's fire |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the gods |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **travel** | past | Maoris |  |  | the hills from Otago |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up hill=Trajectory |
| 5 | **kindle** | past · perfect · passive |  | none |  |  | again |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **reach** | past | Maoris | the Port Hills |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
| 7 | **fire** |  | Tamatea |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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