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title: The Giants’ Causeway some fanciful _pakeha_ has named this wall of l… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giants’ Causeway some fanciful _pakeha_ has named this wall of lava. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 5

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The Giants’ Causeway some fanciful \_pakeha\_ has named this wall of lava.

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**What happens:** name · **To what, where:** Causeway

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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:pg73766:13:5
# text = The Giants’ Causeway some fanciful _pakeha_ has named this wall of lava.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
6	fanciful	fanciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Giants's Causeway |  |  |  | this wall of lava *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme wall=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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