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title: Tauhinu-korokio was an ancient _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe which stood on th… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tauhinu-korokio was an ancient _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe which stood on the site of Major Hornbrook’s old homestead and the present house of Who acts: Tauhinu korokio, ancient _ pa, Major. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “t
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 7

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Tauhinu-korokio was an ancient \_pa\_ of Ngati-Mamoe which stood on the site of Major Hornbrook’s old homestead and the present house of

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**Who acts:** Tauhinu korokio, ancient \_ pa, Major · **What happens:** be, stand, homestead · **To what, where:** ancient \_ pa, site

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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 korokio, ancient \_ pa, Major), 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:pg73766:15:7
# text = Tauhinu-korokio was an ancient _pa_ of Ngati-Mamoe which stood on the site of Major Hornbrook’s old homestead and the present house of
1	Tauhinu	Tauhinu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	korokio	korokio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Hornbrook	Hornbrook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	homestead	homestead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Tauhinu korokio | a ancient \_ pa |  |  |  | Ngati and Mamoe *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a ancient \_ pa |  |  | the site of Major's old homestead |  | of the present house | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on site=Location |
| 3 | **homestead** |  | Major |  |  |  |  |  | nom homestead «possession transitive»: poss=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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