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title: And so, by way of the long Maori story, the one solitary example of… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And so, by way of the long Maori story, the one solitary example of volcano-legendry the writer has heard from the South Island, we come to the Rapaki peak’s guardian name, Te Poho-o-Tamatea. Who acts: writer, we, Rapaki peak. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealan
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 50

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And so, by way of the long Maori story, the one solitary example of volcano-legendry the writer has heard from the South Island, we come to the Rapaki peak’s guardian name, Te Poho-o-Tamatea.

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**Who acts:** writer, we, Rapaki peak · **What happens:** hear, come, exemplify, name · **To what, where:** volcano legendry, South Island, guardian name

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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 (writer, we, Rapaki peak), 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:pg73766:13:50
# text = And so, by way of the long Maori story, the one solitary example of volcano-legendry the writer has heard from the South Island, we come to the Rapaki peak’s guardian name, Te Poho-o-Tamatea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	legendry	legendry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	guardian	guardian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	Poho	Poho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	44	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | the writer | volcano legendry *not said here* |  | the South Island |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent legendry=Topic from island=Source |
| 2 | **come** | present | we |  |  | the Rapaki peak's guardian name |  | by way of the long Maori story  the one solitary example of volcano legendry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to name=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **exemplify** |  |  | volcano legendry |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | the Rapaki peak |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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