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title: Finest of all is the Maori name of Castle Rock, that from one point… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Finest of all is the Maori name of Castle Rock, that from one point in the Heathcote Valley looks like a colossal howitzer threatening the Plains. Who acts: Finest, Castle Rock, colossal howitzer. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hi
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 3

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Finest of all is the Maori name of Castle Rock, that from one point in the Heathcote Valley looks like a colossal howitzer threatening the Plains.

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**Who acts:** Finest, Castle Rock, colossal howitzer · **What happens:** be, look, threaten · **To what, where:** Maori name, Castle Rock, one point, Plains

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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 (Finest, Castle Rock, colossal howitzer), 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:pg73766:10:3
# text = Finest of all is the Maori name of Castle Rock, that from one point in the Heathcote Valley looks like a colossal howitzer threatening the Plains.
1	Finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Maori	maori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Heathcote	Heathcote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	howitzer	howitzer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Finest of all | the Maori name |  |  |  | of Castle Rock | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | Castle Rock | Castle Rock *not said here* |  | one point in the Heathcote Valley |  | like a colossal howitzer | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Attribute |
| 3 | **threaten** | gerund | a colossal howitzer *not said here* | the Plains |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus plain=Experiencer |

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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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