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title: _Tauhinu_ is a heath-like plant found all over New Zealand; it is th… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Tauhinu_ is a heath-like plant found all over New Zealand; it is the Pomaderis phylicaefolia of the botanists. Who acts: Tauhinu, plant. 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 pragm
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 4

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\_Tauhinu\_ is a heath-like plant found all over New Zealand; it is the Pomaderis phylicaefolia of the botanists.

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**Who acts:** Tauhinu, plant · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** New Zealand, Pomaderis phylicaefolia

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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 (Tauhinu, plant), 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:pg73766:15:4
# text = _Tauhinu_ is a heath-like plant found all over New Zealand; it is the Pomaderis phylicaefolia of the botanists.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tauhinu	Tauhinu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Pomaderis	Pomaderis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	phylicaefolia	phylicaefolia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	botanists	botanist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tauhinu |  |  | New Zealand |  | a like plant *nsubj*; find *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | plant | the Pomaderis phylicaefolia |  |  |  | of the botanists | 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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