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title: The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill. — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill. Who acts: Ahi. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter V., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter V., sentence 1

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The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.

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**Who acts:** Ahi · **What happens:** come, witch · **To what, where:** Hill

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter V.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahi), 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:pg73766:7:1
# text = The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ahi	Ahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	Came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	Witch	witch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Ahi and a Tamatea |  |  |  |  | the Sacred Fire *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **witch** | to-infinitive | the Ahi and a Tamatea *not said here* | Hill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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