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title: PRINTED BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED CHRISTCHURCH — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: PRINTED BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED CHRISTCHURCH 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 20

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PRINTED BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED CHRISTCHURCH

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**What happens:** print

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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: 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:pg73766:15:20
# text = PRINTED BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED CHRISTCHURCH
1	PRINTED	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	WHITCOMBE	WHITCOMBE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	TOMBS	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	LIMITED	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	CHRISTCHURCH	CHRISTCHURCH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by WHITCOMBE & TOMBS | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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