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title: Many sea-birds, gulls and puffins and divers, bred in the crannies o… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many sea-birds, gulls and puffins and divers, bred in the crannies of its fire-made rocky shores, and the mainland Maoris canoed across on fowling expeditions. Who acts: Many sea birds. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Port Hills and The
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 88

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Many sea-birds, gulls and puffins and divers, bred in the crannies of its fire-made rocky shores, and the mainland Maoris canoed across on fowling expeditions.

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**Who acts:** Many sea birds · **What happens:** breed, make, canoe, fowl · **To what, where:** Many sea birds, crannies, expeditions

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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 (Many sea birds), 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:pg73766:10:88
# text = Many sea-birds, gulls and puffins and divers, bred in the crannies of its fire-made rocky shores, and the mainland Maoris canoed across on fowling expeditions.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	puffins	puffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crannies	cranny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	Maoris	Maoris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
28	canoed	canoe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	across	across	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fowling	fowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | participle |  | Many sea birds and gulls and puffins and divers *not said here* |  | the crannies of race's made rocky shores |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fire *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **canoe** | past | Many sea birds and gulls and puffins and divers |  |  |  |  | the mainland *nsubj*; across *property* | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fowl** | gerund | Many sea birds and gulls and puffins and divers *not said here* | expeditions |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Location |

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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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