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title: Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z. — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 1

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Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z.

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**To what, where:** Auckland

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. 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:pg73766:2:1
# text = Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, & Wellington, N.Z.
1	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Christchurch	Christchurch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Dunedin	Dunedin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	N.Z	N.Z	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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