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title: Now the Old Man’s memories take him back seawards across the Port Hi… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Old Man’s memories take him back seawards across the Port Hills to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu-Korokio. Who acts: memories, Port. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 1

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Now the Old Man’s memories take him back seawards across the Port Hills to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu-Korokio.

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**Who acts:** memories, Port · **What happens:** take back, hill · **To what, where:** Man

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memories, Port), 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:pg73766:15:1
# text = Now the Old Man’s memories take him back seawards across the Port Hills to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu-Korokio.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	seawards	seaward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	Hills	hill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	knolls	knoll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Tauhinu	Tauhinu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Korokio	Korokio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take back** | present | the Old Man's memories | Man |  |  | now | seawards *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme seaward=Destination |
| 2 | **hill** | present | the Port |  |  |  |  | to the familiar knolls of Tauhinu and Korokio | 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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