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title: There is in Maori belief an exceedingly _tapu_ spot on Tauhinu-korok… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is in Maori belief an exceedingly _tapu_ spot on Tauhinu-korokio, close to where the old Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ stood. Who acts: Maori belief, old Ngati. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, with its dependency tr
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 13

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There is in Maori belief an exceedingly \_tapu\_ spot on Tauhinu-korokio, close to where the old Ngati-Mamoe \_pa\_ stood.

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**Who acts:** Maori belief, old Ngati · **What happens:** be, stand

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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 (Maori belief, old Ngati), 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:pg73766:15:13
# text = There is in Maori belief an exceedingly _tapu_ spot on Tauhinu-korokio, close to where the old Ngati-Mamoe _pa_ stood.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tapu	tapu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Tauhinu	Tauhinu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	korokio	korokio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | Maori belief |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the old Ngati and Mamoe |  |  |  |  | pa \_ *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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