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title: There was a good spring of water close by, and this important fact n… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a good spring of water close by, and this important fact no doubt determined the situation of the Ngati-Mamoe hillmen’s village. Who acts: good spring, this, doubt. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, w
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 10

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There was a good spring of water close by, and this important fact no doubt determined the situation of the Ngati-Mamoe hillmen’s village.

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**Who acts:** good spring, this, doubt · **What happens:** be, fact, determine · **To what, where:** situation

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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 (good spring, this, doubt), 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:pg73766:15:10
# text = There was a good spring of water close by, and this important fact no doubt determined the situation of the Ngati-Mamoe hillmen’s village.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	hillmen	hillmen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a good spring of water |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fact** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** | past | no doubt | the situation of the Mamoe hillmen's village |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic |

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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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