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title: And maybe if Mr. Ell’s name were bestowed, like Tamatea’s of old, up… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And maybe if Mr. Ell’s name were bestowed, like Tamatea’s of old, upon one of these monumental crags still unchristened, it would but fittingly preserve the memory of a man whose title to such local honour and fame is certainly greater than that of some of his forerunners whose names the landscape b
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 12

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And maybe if Mr. Ell’s name were bestowed, like Tamatea’s of old, upon one of these monumental crags still unchristened, it would but fittingly preserve the memory of a man whose title to such local honour and fame is certainly greater than that of some of his forerunners whose names the landscape bears.

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**Who acts:** title, Ell, forerunners · **What happens:** bestow, unchristen, preserve, be, name · **To what, where:** name, monumental crags, memory

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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: who acts (title, Ell, forerunners), 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:pg73766:2:12
# text = And maybe if Mr. Ell’s name were bestowed, like Tamatea’s of old, upon one of these monumental crags still unchristened, it would but fittingly preserve the memory of a man whose title to such local honour and fame is certainly greater than that of some of his forerunners whose names the landscape bears.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Ell	Ell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	monumental	monumental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	unchristened	unchristen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	fittingly	fittingly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
36	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	acl:relcl	_	_
47	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	forerunners	forerunner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | past · passive |  | Ell  Mr.'s name |  |  |  | like Tamatea of old; one of this monumental crags *parataxis*; maybe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **unchristen** | participle |  | this monumental crags *not said here* |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **preserve** | infinitive |  | the memory |  |  |  | fittingly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | present | title to such local honour and fame |  |  |  |  | of a man; than the memory; certainly, great *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | Ell  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | Mr.'s forerunners  Mr.'s forerunners  names and the landscape bears's names and the landscape bears |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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