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title: The Mitchell Track that winds along northward between the tumbled ro… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mitchell Track that winds along northward between the tumbled rocks and among the hill flax gives the explorer a start on his traverse from Dyer’s Pass. Who acts: Mitchell Track. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 10

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The Mitchell Track that winds along northward between the tumbled rocks and among the hill flax gives the explorer a start on his traverse from Dyer’s Pass.

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**Who acts:** Mitchell Track · **What happens:** wind, tumble, give · **To what, where:** explorer

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mitchell Track), 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:pg73766:11:10
# text = The Mitchell Track that winds along northward between the tumbled rocks and among the hill flax gives the explorer a start on his traverse from Dyer’s Pass.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mitchell	Mitchell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	traverse	traverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Dyer	Dyer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | present | the Mitchell Track |  |  |  |  | the tumbled rocks and the hill flax *parataxis*; along *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tumble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | present | the Mitchell Track | the explorer |  |  |  | a start *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent explorer=Recipient start=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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