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title: The Giant’s Causeway--A Volcanic Dyke--Tamatea the Polynesian Explor… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant’s Causeway--A Volcanic Dyke--Tamatea the Polynesian Explorer--A Great March--The Camp at Witch Hill--Tamatea’s Call for Fire--The _Tipua_ Flames from Ngauruhoe--“The Ashes of Tamatea’s Camp Fire” 52 Who acts: Tamatea. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zeala
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Chapter V., sentence 2

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The Giant’s Causeway--A Volcanic Dyke--Tamatea the Polynesian Explorer--A Great March--The Camp at Witch Hill--Tamatea’s Call for Fire--The \_Tipua\_ Flames from Ngauruhoe--“The Ashes of Tamatea’s Camp Fire” 52

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**Who acts:** Tamatea · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Giant Causeway · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tamatea), 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:pg73766:7:2
# text = The Giant’s Causeway--A Volcanic Dyke--Tamatea the Polynesian Explorer--A Great March--The Camp at Witch Hill--Tamatea’s Call for Fire--The _Tipua_ Flames from Ngauruhoe--“The Ashes of Tamatea’s Camp Fire” 52
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Dyke	dyke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Polynesian	Polynesian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Explorer	Explorer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Camp	Camp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	Call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Tipua	Tipua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Ngauruhoe	Ngauruhoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Ashes	Ash	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	Camp	Camp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
48	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	list	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **call** |  | Tamatea |  |  |  |  | for Fire | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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