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title: HONE TAARE TIKAO, the narrator of the legends.] — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: HONE TAARE TIKAO, the narrator of the legends.] 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 5

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HONE TAARE TIKAO, the narrator of the legends.\]

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**To what, where:** TAARE

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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:pg73766:2:5
# text = HONE TAARE TIKAO, the narrator of the legends.]
1	HONE	hone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	TAARE	TAARE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	TIKAO	TIKAO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	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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