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title: Not that he reposed implicit faith in the fairy stories himself, he… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not that he reposed implicit faith in the fairy stories himself, he told them as he had heard them from his elders in the days of long ago. Who acts: Kaumatua. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist., with its depende
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 9

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Not that he reposed implicit faith in the fairy stories himself, he told them as he had heard them from his elders in the days of long ago.

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**Who acts:** Kaumatua · **What happens:** not repose, tell, hear · **To what, where:** implicit faith, fairy stories, stories, elders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kaumatua), 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:pg73766:14:9
# text = Not that he reposed implicit faith in the fairy stories himself, he told them as he had heard them from his elders in the days of long ago.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reposed	repose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	implicit	implicit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **repose** | past | Kaumatua | implicit faith |  | the fairy stories  Kaumatua |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location faith=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kaumatua |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | Kaumatua | stories *= story* |  | Kaumatua's elders | day |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Topic from elder=Source |

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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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