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title: This surely is a name that the _pakeha_ should imprint upon his Peni… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: This surely is a name that the _pakeha_ should imprint upon his Peninsula maps. Who acts: This, _ pakeha _. 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 42

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This surely is a name that the \_pakeha\_ should imprint upon his Peninsula maps.

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**Who acts:** This, \_ pakeha \_ · **What happens:** be, imprint · **To what, where:** name, Peninsula maps

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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: who acts (This, \_ pakeha \_), 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:pg73766:14:42
# text = This surely is a name that the _pakeha_ should imprint upon his Peninsula maps.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	imprint	imprint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a name |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imprint** | should | the \_ pakeha \_ | a name |  | \_'s Peninsula maps |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme upon map=Destination |

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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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