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title: Here near the Stony Bay road saddle, is the legend-haunted O-te-Pata… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here near the Stony Bay road saddle, is the legend-haunted O-te-Patatu, the old-time ridge of the fairies and the _titi_. Who acts: haunted O te. 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 t
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 50

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Here near the Stony Bay road saddle, is the legend-haunted O-te-Patatu, the old-time ridge of the fairies and the \_titi\_.

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**Who acts:** haunted O te · **What happens:** be, haunt · **To what, where:** Bay road saddle

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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 (haunted O te), 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:pg73766:14:50
# text = Here near the Stony Bay road saddle, is the legend-haunted O-te-Patatu, the old-time ridge of the fairies and the _titi_.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Stony	Stony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Patatu	Patatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	titi	titi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the haunted O te |  |  | the Bay road saddle |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **haunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | legend *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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