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title: However, these fancies need not trouble the _pakeha_, whose constitu… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: However, these fancies need not trouble the _pakeha_, whose constitution is not affected by even the most virulent of Maori bedevilments. Who acts: fancies. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, with its dependency
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 19

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However, these fancies need not trouble the \_pakeha\_, whose constitution is not affected by even the most virulent of Maori bedevilments.

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**Who acts:** fancies · **What happens:** not need, not affect · **To what, where:** trouble, constitution

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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 (fancies), 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:pg73766:15:19
# text = However, these fancies need not trouble the _pakeha_, whose constitution is not affected by even the most virulent of Maori bedevilments.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	virulent	virulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Maori	maori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bedevilments	bedevilment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present | this fancies | trouble |  |  |  | the \_ pakeha *obj*; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **affect** | present · passive |  | constitution |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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