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title: The Port Hills and their geological history--The Dead Fire-Cones--“T… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Port Hills and their geological history--The Dead Fire-Cones--“The Fire of Tamatea”--Bold Cliff and Mountain Scenery--Beauties of the Port Range 1 A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks, with its dependency tr
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks, sentence 1

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The Port Hills and their geological history--The Dead Fire-Cones--“The Fire of Tamatea”--Bold Cliff and Mountain Scenery--Beauties of the Port Range 1

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**To what, where:** Fire Cones

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter I. The Story of the Rocks. 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:pg73766:3:1
# text = The Port Hills and their geological history--The Dead Fire-Cones--“The Fire of Tamatea”--Bold Cliff and Mountain Scenery--Beauties of the Port Range 1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Hills	Hill	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	geological	geological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Cliff	Cliff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Scenery	scenery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	Range	Range	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
```

## 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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