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title: About Redcliffs, where the tramline passes round from the broads and… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: About Redcliffs, where the tramline passes round from the broads and under the great cave-riddled lava precipice, there belongs a rather beautiful name, Rae-Kura, which is more modern than most of the other Native designations. Who acts: tramline, beautiful name. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of t
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 108

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About Redcliffs, where the tramline passes round from the broads and under the great cave-riddled lava precipice, there belongs a rather beautiful name, Rae-Kura, which is more modern than most of the other Native designations.

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**Who acts:** tramline, beautiful name · **What happens:** pass round, belong, be · **To what, where:** broads, beautiful name

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, 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: who acts (tramline, beautiful 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:pg73766:10:108
# text = About Redcliffs, where the tramline passes round from the broads and under the great cave-riddled lava precipice, there belongs a rather beautiful name, Rae-Kura, which is more modern than most of the other Native designations.
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Redcliffs	Redcliffs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tramline	tramline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	broads	broad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
16	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	riddled	riddled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Rae	Rae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Kura	Kura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	designations	designation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass round** | present | the tramline |  |  | the broads and the great cave riddled lava precipice |  | about Redcliffs; round *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about redcliffs=Location |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the tramline *not said here* | a beautiful name |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a beautiful name |  |  |  |  | than most of the other Native designations; modern *property* | 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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