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title: Immediately southward of the Pass road the land goes easily swelling… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately southward of the Pass road the land goes easily swelling up into Marley’s Hill, a little higher than our Sugarloaf, and now a story of old-time explaining the meaning of the Maori name of that airy saddle comes to mind. Who acts: land, old time, story. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 19

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Immediately southward of the Pass road the land goes easily swelling up into Marley’s Hill, a little higher than our Sugarloaf, and now a story of old-time explaining the meaning of the Maori name of that airy saddle comes to mind.

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**Who acts:** land, old time, story · **What happens:** go, swell up, explain, come, mind, mean · **To what, where:** Hill, meaning, Maori name, airy saddle

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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 (land, old time, story), 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:pg73766:11:19
# text = Immediately southward of the Pass road the land goes easily swelling up into Marley’s Hill, a little higher than our Sugarloaf, and now a story of old-time explaining the meaning of the Maori name of that airy saddle comes to mind.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Marley	Marley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	Sugarloaf	sugarloaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Maori	maori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the land |  |  |  |  | easily, southward *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **swell up** | gerund | the land *not said here* |  |  | Marley's Hill |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | old time *not said here* | the meaning of the Maori name of that airy saddle |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | present | a story of old time |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** | to-infinitive | a story of old time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **mean** |  |  | the Maori name of that airy saddle |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **name** |  |  | that airy saddle |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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