--- title: There are innumerable stories illustrating his genius for exploratio… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: There are innumerable stories illustrating his genius for exploration, and from end to end of New Zealand place nomenclature memorises his travels and justifies the name by which he is known in history, Tamatea-pokai-whenua, or “Tamatea-who-travels-through-the-land.” Who acts: innumerable stories, n --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/13/55/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) / [How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/13/) / 55 # Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 55 There are innumerable stories illustrating his genius for exploration, and from end to end of New Zealand place nomenclature memorises his travels and justifies the name by which he is known in history, Tamatea-pokai-whenua, or “Tamatea-who-travels-through-the-land.” **Who acts:** innumerable stories, name, Tamatea · **What happens:** be, illustrate, memoris, travel, justify, know · **To what, where:** genius, end, name, story, history, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (innumerable stories, name, Tamatea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:13:55 # text = There are innumerable stories illustrating his genius for exploration, and from end to end of New Zealand place nomenclature memorises his travels and justifies the name by which he is known in history, Tamatea-pokai-whenua, or “Tamatea-who-travels-through-the-land.” 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 innumerable innumerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 illustrating illustrate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 exploration exploration NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 18 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 nomenclature nomenclature NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 memorises memoris VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 justifies justify VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Tamatea Tamatea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 pokai pokai X FW Foreign=Yes 36 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 whenua whenua NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 “ " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Tamatea Tamatea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 through through ADP IN _ 54 case _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ” " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | innumerable stories | | | there | | Tamatea *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **illustrate** | gerund | innumerable stories *not said here* | story's genius | | | | for exploration | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Destination | | 3 | **memoris** | present | | | | | from end to end of Zealand place nomenclature | | tree rules | | 4 | **travel** | present | | | | | | story *nmod:poss* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **justify** *speech: other* | present | | the name | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 6 | **know** | present · passive | the name | story | | history | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | | 7 | **travel** *in a quote* | present | Tamatea | | | the land | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/13/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/13/56/) - ↑ back to [How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/13/)