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title: There are names of dignity and beauty clustered about those old lava… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are names of dignity and beauty clustered about those old lava-built crags and ruined towers and tors past which the Summit Road goes a thousand feet above the city. Who acts: names, Summit Road. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Po
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 2

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There are names of dignity and beauty clustered about those old lava-built crags and ruined towers and tors past which the Summit Road goes a thousand feet above the city.

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**Who acts:** names, Summit Road · **What happens:** be, cluster, build, ruin, go, name · **To what, where:** beauty, towers, thousand feet, city, dignity

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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 (names, Summit Road), 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:pg73766:10:2
# text = There are names of dignity and beauty clustered about those old lava-built crags and ruined towers and tors past which the Summit Road goes a thousand feet above the city.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tors	tor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	past	past	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Summit	Summit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	above	above	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | names of dignity and beauty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cluster** | participle |  | beauty *not said here* |  |  |  | about that old built crags | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | lava *compound* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **ruin** | past | names of dignity and beauty *not said here* | towers and tors |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | present | the Summit Road | thousand feet |  | the city |  | which *obj* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | dignity and beauty |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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