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title: These stories, I hope, will invest with a new interest for many Cant… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: These stories, I hope, will invest with a new interest for many Canterbury _pakehas_ the scenic beauties of the Port Hills now opened up from end to end by the Summit Road. Who acts: I, stories. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Whitcombe & T
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 8

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These stories, I hope, will invest with a new interest for many Canterbury \_pakehas\_ the scenic beauties of the Port Hills now opened up from end to end by the Summit Road.

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**Who acts:** I, stories · **What happens:** hope, invest, open up · **To what, where:** stories, scenic beauties, end

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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 (I, stories), 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:pg73766:2:8
# text = These stories, I hope, will invest with a new interest for many Canterbury _pakehas_ the scenic beauties of the Port Hills now opened up from end to end by the Summit Road.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	invest	invest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pakehas	pakeha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	scenic	scenic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	Hills	hill	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Summit	Summit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | I | this stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **invest** | future | this stories |  |  |  |  | with a new interest for many Canterbury | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with interest=Theme |
| 3 | **open up** | present · passive |  | the scenic beauties |  |  | from end; to end by the Summit Road; now | of the Port; pakehas *obl* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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