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title: Far below is the little indent of Te Awa-toetoe, or “Pampas-grass st… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Far below is the little indent of Te Awa-toetoe, or “Pampas-grass stream” near the artillery barracks. Who acts: Pampas, artillery. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and Their Names., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 23

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Far below is the little indent of Te Awa-toetoe, or “Pampas-grass stream” near the artillery barracks.

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**Who acts:** Pampas, artillery · **What happens:** be, stream, barrack · **To what, where:** little indent

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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 (Pampas, artillery), 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:pg73766:10:23
# text = Far below is the little indent of Te Awa-toetoe, or “Pampas-grass stream” near the artillery barracks.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	indent	indent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Awa	Awa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	toetoe	toetoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Pampas	pampa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	artillery	artillery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	barracks	barrack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the little indent or grass stream |  |  |  | of Te; below *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stream** *in a quote* |  | Pampas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **barrack** | present | the artillery |  |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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