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title: To the matter-of-fact _pakeha_ and the modernised Maori there is a v… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the matter-of-fact _pakeha_ and the modernised Maori there is a very simple explanation of these fairy tales. Who acts: simple explanation, fairy tales. 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 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 70

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To the matter-of-fact \_pakeha\_ and the modernised Maori there is a very simple explanation of these fairy tales.

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**Who acts:** simple explanation, fairy tales · **What happens:** modernis, be, explain

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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 (simple explanation, fairy tales), 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:pg73766:14:70
# text = To the matter-of-fact _pakeha_ and the modernised Maori there is a very simple explanation of these fairy tales.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	modernised	modernis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **modernis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | a simple explanation of this fairy tales |  |  | there |  | to the fact  matter and the modernised Maori | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **explain** |  | this fairy tales |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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