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title: Here I desire to record also, with feelings of gratitude, the name o… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here I desire to record also, with feelings of gratitude, the name of the principal narrator of the legends, Mr. Hone Taare Tikao, of Rapaki, a Ngai-Tahu gentleman whose uncommonly retentive memory is a storehouse of information on local history and who blends in himself the gifts of the folk-lorist
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 9

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Here I desire to record also, with feelings of gratitude, the name of the principal narrator of the legends, Mr. Hone Taare Tikao, of Rapaki, a Ngai-Tahu gentleman whose uncommonly retentive memory is a storehouse of information on local history and who blends in himself the gifts of the folk-lorist and the genealogist.

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**Who acts:** I, retentive memory, storehouse · **What happens:** desire, record, be, blend, name, gift · **To what, where:** storehouse, gifts, principal narrator, folk lorist

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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, retentive memory, storehouse), 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:pg73766:2:9
# text = Here I desire to record also, with feelings of gratitude, the name of the principal narrator of the legends, Mr. Hone Taare Tikao, of Rapaki, a Ngai-Tahu gentleman whose uncommonly retentive memory is a storehouse of information on local history and who blends in himself the gifts of the folk-lorist and the genealogist.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Hone	hone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Taare	Taare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	Ngai	Ngai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Tahu	Tahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
36	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	retentive	retentive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	acl:relcl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	blends	blend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	50	obl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
57	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	lorist	lorist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	genealogist	genealogist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | I |  |  | here |  | with feelings of gratitude | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **record** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a storehouse's retentive memory | a storehouse |  |  |  | of information on local history | tree rules |
| 4 | **blend** | present | a storehouse | the gifts of the folk lorist and the genealogist |  |  |  | in gentleman | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the principal narrator of the legends  Taare  Mr. Hone and Rapaki |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **gift** |  |  | the folk lorist and the genealogist |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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