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title: _Kumara_ and _taro_, the tropic foods of the north, did not flourish… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Kumara_ and _taro_, the tropic foods of the north, did not flourish in the hill country of the south, though they did well enough, with care, on favoured parts of the Canterbury Plains and the Coast. Who acts: Kumara, foods. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 12

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\_Kumara\_ and \_taro\_, the tropic foods of the north, did not flourish in the hill country of the south, though they did well enough, with care, on favoured parts of the Canterbury Plains and the Coast.

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**Who acts:** Kumara, foods · **What happens:** not flourish, do, favour · **To what, where:** hill country

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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 (Kumara, foods), 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:pg73766:15:12
# text = _Kumara_ and _taro_, the tropic foods of the north, did not flourish in the hill country of the south, though they did well enough, with care, on favoured parts of the Canterbury Plains and the Coast.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kumara	Kumara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tropic	tropic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **flourish** | past · do-support | Kumara and taro and the tropic foods of the north |  |  | the hill country of the south |  | on favoured parts of the Canterbury Plains and the Coast; care *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past | foods *= food* |  |  |  |  | enough, well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **favour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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