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title: The Maori name is a combination of the names of two Native shrubs wh… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maori name is a combination of the names of two Native shrubs which were very plentiful on that portion of the hills in former times and specimens of which may still be seen there. Who acts: Maori name, two Native shrubs. 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 3

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The Maori name is a combination of the names of two Native shrubs which were very plentiful on that portion of the hills in former times and specimens of which may still be seen there.

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**Who acts:** Maori name, two Native shrubs · **What happens:** be, see, name · **To what, where:** combination, portion, two Native shrubs

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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 name, two Native shrubs), 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:pg73766:15:3
# text = The Maori name is a combination of the names of two Native shrubs which were very plentiful on that portion of the hills in former times and specimens of which may still be seen there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Maori name | a combination |  |  |  | of the names of two Native shrubs | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | two Native shrubs |  |  | that portion of the hills in former times and specimens |  | plentiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | may · passive |  |  |  | there | still | of specimens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | two Native shrubs |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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