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title: The Maoris, with a quick eye for such significant topographical feat… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maoris, with a quick eye for such significant topographical features, gave the place a name which blends history with legend, “Wheke’s Sleeping Place.” Who acts: Maoris, name. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Story of the Rocks., wit
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 18

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The Maoris, with a quick eye for such significant topographical features, gave the place a name which blends history with legend, “Wheke’s Sleeping Place.”

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**Who acts:** Maoris, name · **What happens:** give, blend · **To what, where:** place, history

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, 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: who acts (Maoris, name), 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:pg73766:9:18
# text = The Maoris, with a quick eye for such significant topographical features, gave the place a name which blends history with legend, “Wheke’s Sleeping Place.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	topographical	topographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	blends	blend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Wheke	Wheke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	Sleeping	Sleeping	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Maoris | the place |  |  |  | a name *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent place=Recipient name=Theme |
| 2 | **blend** | present | a name | history |  |  |  | with legend and Sleeping Place | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent history=Patient with legend=Co-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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