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title: Titi whakatai aro rua E hoki ra koe Ki O-te-Patatu, Ki te pa whakata… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Titi whakatai aro rua E hoki ra koe Ki O-te-Patatu, Ki te pa whakatangi Ki te koauau, Ki tauwene ai E raro i au-e! Who acts: Ki, i. 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 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 57

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Titi whakatai aro rua E hoki ra koe Ki O-te-Patatu, Ki te pa whakatangi Ki te koauau, Ki tauwene ai E raro i au-e!

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**Who acts:** Ki, i · **What happens:** whakatangi, e · **To what, where:** Titi

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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 (Ki, i), 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:pg73766:14:57
# text = Titi whakatai aro rua E hoki ra koe Ki O-te-Patatu, Ki te pa whakatangi Ki te koauau, Ki tauwene ai E raro i au-e!
1	Titi	Titi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	whakatai	whakatai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
3	aro	aro	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	rua	rua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
5	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	hoki	hoki	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	ra	ra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	koe	koe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Patatu	Patatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	whakatangi	whakatangi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	te	te	X	GW	_	19	appos	_	_
22	koauau	koauau	X	NN	_	21	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	tauwene	tauwene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
27	E	e	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	12	appos	_	_
28	raro	raro	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	flat	_	_
29	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	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 | **whakatangi** |  | Ki |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **e** |  | i |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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