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title: The _Maeroero_ are out, spearing _patiki_.” — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Maeroero_ are out, spearing _patiki_.” Who acts: Maeroero. 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 66

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The \_Maeroero\_ are out, spearing \_patiki\_.”

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**Who acts:** Maeroero · **What happens:** be, spear · **To what, where:** patiki, Maeroero

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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 (Maeroero), 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:pg73766:14:66
# text = The _Maeroero_ are out, spearing _patiki_.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Maeroero	Maeroero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	spearing	spear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	patiki	patiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spear** | gerund | the Maeroero *not said here* | patiki |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patiki=Patient |

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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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