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title: Some of the place-names were supplied by the late Mr. T. E. Green (T… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the place-names were supplied by the late Mr. T. E. Green (Tame Kirini), of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, one of the last good native authorities on the ancient history of the plains. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, w
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 10

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Some of the place-names were supplied by the late Mr. T. E. Green (Tame Kirini), of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, one of the last good native authorities on the ancient history of the plains.

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**What happens:** supply · **To what, where:** Some

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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:pg73766:2:10
# text = Some of the place-names were supplied by the late Mr. T. E. Green (Tame Kirini), of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi, one of the last good native authorities on the ancient history of the plains.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Tame	Tame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Kirini	Kirini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Tuahiwi	Tuahiwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Kaiapoi	Kaiapoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	list	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | past · passive |  | Some of the place names |  |  |  | by the T. E. Green and Tame Kirini and Tuahiwi and Kaiapoi | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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