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title: Working south from the lighthouse we presently come to the deep bay… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Working south from the lighthouse we presently come to the deep bay of Te Awa-parahi, where a little farmstead stands in its well-hidden nest, between the lowering peaks. Who acts: we, little farmstead. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The P
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 21

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Working south from the lighthouse we presently come to the deep bay of Te Awa-parahi, where a little farmstead stands in its well-hidden nest, between the lowering peaks.

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**Who acts:** we, little farmstead · **What happens:** work, come, stand, hide · **To what, where:** lighthouse, deep bay, well hidden nest

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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 (we, little farmstead), 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:pg73766:10:21
# text = Working south from the lighthouse we presently come to the deep bay of Te Awa-parahi, where a little farmstead stands in its well-hidden nest, between the lowering peaks.
1	Working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	south	south	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lighthouse	lighthouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Awa	Awa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	parahi	parahi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	farmstead	farmstead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	lowering	lowering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  | the lighthouse |  | south *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | we |  |  | the deep bay of Te |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bay=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stand** | present | a little farmstead |  |  | lighthouse's well hidden nest and the lowering peaks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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