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title: But the _Patu-paiarche_ who lived on the crags of O-te-Patatu and Ta… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the _Patu-paiarche_ who lived on the crags of O-te-Patatu and Tara-te-rehu also hunted these _titi_, and slaughtered them in such numbers, in a most unfairylike manner, that presently these fishy petrels became extinct in that locality. Who acts: Patu paiarche, Patatu, that. A sentence of «Maori
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 55

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But the \_Patu-paiarche\_ who lived on the crags of O-te-Patatu and Tara-te-rehu also hunted these \_titi\_, and slaughtered them in such numbers, in a most unfairylike manner, that presently these fishy petrels became extinct in that locality.

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**Who acts:** Patu paiarche, Patatu, that · **What happens:** live, hunt, slaughter, become · **To what, where:** crags, \_ titi, Patatu, such numbers, locality

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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 (Patu paiarche, Patatu, that), 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:pg73766:14:55
# text = But the _Patu-paiarche_ who lived on the crags of O-te-Patatu and Tara-te-rehu also hunted these _titi_, and slaughtered them in such numbers, in a most unfairylike manner, that presently these fishy petrels became extinct in that locality.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Patu	Patu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	paiarche	paiarche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
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	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Patatu	Patatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	rehu	rehu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	titi	titi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	42	advmod	_	_
42	unfairylike	unfairylike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
46	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
48	fishy	fishy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	petrels	petrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
51	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	locality	locality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the Patu paiarche |  |  | the crags of O te |  | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crag=Location |
| 2 | **hunt** | past | Patatu and Tara te rehu | this \_ titi |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent titi=Theme |
| 3 | **slaughter** | past | the Patu paiarche *not said here* | Patatu |  | such numbers |  | in a unfairylike manner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | that |  |  |  |  | in that locality *result*; this fishy petrels *nsubj*; extinct *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in locality=Result |

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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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