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title: Herbert, taken from Lyttelton. — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Herbert, taken from Lyttelton. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 17

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Herbert, taken from Lyttelton.

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**What happens:** take · **To what, where:** Herbert, Lyttelton

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. 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:pg73766:14:17
# text = Herbert, taken from Lyttelton.
1	Herbert	Herbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle |  | Herbert *not said here* |  | Lyttelton |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from lyttelton=Initial\_Location |

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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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