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title: To the Maori it is the “Ahi-a-Tamatea” or “the Fire of Tamatea”, and… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the Maori it is the “Ahi-a-Tamatea” or “the Fire of Tamatea”, and a strange nature legend there is thereto; a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth are curiously blended. Who acts: Tamatea. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sa
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 6

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To the Maori it is the “Ahi-a-Tamatea” or “the Fire of Tamatea”, and a strange nature legend there is thereto; a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth are curiously blended.

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**Who acts:** Tamatea · **What happens:** be, blend · **To what, where:** strange nature legend

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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 (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:pg73766:13:6
# text = To the Maori it is the “Ahi-a-Tamatea” or “the Fire of Tamatea”, and a strange nature legend there is thereto; a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth are curiously blended.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ahi	Ahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
29	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	36	det	_	_
36	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	geologic	geologic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	blended	blend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a strange nature legend and a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth |  |  |  | a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blend** | present · passive | a Tamatea or the Fire of Tamatea *not said here* | a strange nature legend and a folk tale in which fable and geologic myth |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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