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title: Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range--Hills of the Rainbow God--“The… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range--Hills of the Rainbow God--“The Pinnacle of Kahukura”--Crags of the Sounding Footsteps--Ancient Lyttelton: “The Basket of Heads”--Ambuscades in the Bush 7 A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter II. The 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter II. The Port Hills and Their Names, sentence 1

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Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range--Hills of the Rainbow God--“The Pinnacle of Kahukura”--Crags of the Sounding Footsteps--Ancient Lyttelton: “The Basket of Heads”--Ambuscades in the Bush 7

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**To what, where:** Maori Nomenclature

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter II. The Port Hills and Their Names. 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:pg73766:4:1
# text = Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range--Hills of the Rainbow God--“The Pinnacle of Kahukura”--Crags of the Sounding Footsteps--Ancient Lyttelton: “The Basket of Heads”--Ambuscades in the Bush 7
1	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Nomenclature	Nomenclature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Range	Range	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Rainbow	Rainbow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Pinnacle	Pinnacle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kahukura	Kahukura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Sounding	sounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Lyttelton	Lyttelton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Basket	Basket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Heads	Head	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Ambuscades	Ambuscade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Bush	Bush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
41	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	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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