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title: Next as we go up to meet the hills of Banks Peninsula is the bold pr… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next as we go up to meet the hills of Banks Peninsula is the bold precipice of Te Pari-mataa, or “Obsidian Cliff,” with the great volcanic dyke of Otarahaka, and then our present pilgrimage ends, for we are right under the hugely parapeted castle hill of Te Ahu-patiki--Mt. Who acts: we, Banks Penins
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 61

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Next as we go up to meet the hills of Banks Peninsula is the bold precipice of Te Pari-mataa, or “Obsidian Cliff,” with the great volcanic dyke of Otarahaka, and then our present pilgrimage ends, for we are right under the hugely parapeted castle hill of Te Ahu-patiki--Mt.

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**Who acts:** we, Banks Peninsula, present pilgrimage · **What happens:** go up, meet, be, end, parapet · **To what, where:** hills, hugely parapeted castle hill

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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, Banks Peninsula, present pilgrimage), 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:pg73766:10:61
# text = Next as we go up to meet the hills of Banks Peninsula is the bold precipice of Te Pari-mataa, or “Obsidian Cliff,” with the great volcanic dyke of Otarahaka, and then our present pilgrimage ends, for we are right under the hugely parapeted castle hill of Te Ahu-patiki--Mt.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	Banks	Banks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Pari	Pari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	mataa	mataa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Obsidian	obsidian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dyke	dyke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Otarahaka	Otarahaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
39	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	advcl	_	_
48	under	under	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
50	hugely	hugely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	parapeted	parapet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
52	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	Ahu	Ahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	patiki	patiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	Mt	Mt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the hills |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Banks Peninsula |  |  |  |  | of the bold precipice; of Te | tree rules |
| 4 | **end** | present | our present pilgrimage |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | present | we |  |  | the hugely parapeted castle hill of Te |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **parapet** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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