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title: The Bell on the Ribbonwood Tree--Tikao and his Traditions--The Days… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter IV. Rapaki: A Village by the Sea, sentence 1

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The Bell on the Ribbonwood Tree--Tikao and his Traditions--The Days of the Ngati-Mamoe--Te Rangiwhakaputa’s Conquests--The Crags of Tamatea--A Sturdy Pagan--Evening Picture at Rapaki 39

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**Who acts:** Conquests · **What happens:** even · **To what, where:** Picture, Rapaki, Bell

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter IV. Rapaki: A Village by the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conquests), 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:pg73766:6:1
# text = The Bell on the Ribbonwood Tree--Tikao and his Traditions--The Days of the Ngati-Mamoe--Te Rangiwhakaputa’s Conquests--The Crags of Tamatea--A Sturdy Pagan--Evening Picture at Rapaki 39
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Ribbonwood	Ribbonwood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Tikao	Tikao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Ngati	Ngati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mamoe	Mamoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Rangiwhakaputa	Rangiwhakaputa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
24	Conquests	conquest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Pagan	Pagan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Evening	even	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
36	Picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **even** | gerund | Te's Conquests and the Crags of Tamatea *not said here* | Picture |  | Rapaki |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent picture=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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