--- title: Really to appreciate the special and peculiar beauty of the hills, w… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: Really to appreciate the special and peculiar beauty of the hills, with their nippled peaks and crags and their age-weathered cliffs, one must travel along the Lyttelton-Governor’s Bay road rather than view the range from the Plains, where the smoothed and settled ridges, like a series of long whale --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) / [“the Crest of the Rainbow.”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/) / 2 # Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 2 Really to appreciate the special and peculiar beauty of the hills, with their nippled peaks and crags and their age-weathered cliffs, one must travel along the Lyttelton-Governor’s Bay road rather than view the range from the Plains, where the smoothed and settled ridges, like a series of long whalebacks, give little hint of the sudden rocky wildness of the precipitous dip to the harbour slopes. **Who acts:** one, smoothed ridges, sudden rocky wildness · **What happens:** appreciate, nipple, weather, travel, view, smooth · **To what, where:** special beauty, Bay road, range, Plains, little hint, harbour slopes 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 (one, smoothed ridges, sudden rocky wildness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:11:2 # text = Really to appreciate the special and peculiar beauty of the hills, with their nippled peaks and crags and their age-weathered cliffs, one must travel along the Lyttelton-Governor’s Bay road rather than view the range from the Plains, where the smoothed and settled ridges, like a series of long whalebacks, give little hint of the sudden rocky wildness of the precipitous dip to the harbour slopes. 1 Really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 appreciate appreciate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 peculiar peculiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 nippled nipple VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 peaks peak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 crags crag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 21 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 weathered weather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 29 along along ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 Lyttelton Lyttelton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Governor Governor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 Bay Bay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 39 cc _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 view view VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 range range NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Plains Plain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 46 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 51 advmod _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 48 smoothed smooth VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 amod _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 conj _ _ 51 ridges ridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 list _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 like like ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 whalebacks whaleback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 61 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 hint hint NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 65 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 66 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 wildness wildness NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nmod _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 70 precipitous precipitous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 dip dip NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nmod _ _ 72 to to ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 74 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 75 compound _ _ 75 slopes slope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appreciate** | to-infinitive | | the special beauty of the hills | | | | Hills's nippled peaks and crags and Hills's weathered cliffs *parataxis* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | | 2 | **nipple** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **weather** | participle | | | | | age | | tree rules | | 4 | **travel** | must | one | | | the Lyttelton Governor's Bay road | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | | 5 | **view** | infinitive | one *not said here* | the range the smoothed ridges and a series of long whalebacks | | the Plains | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer range=Stimulus | | 6 | **smooth** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **settle** | participle | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **give** | present | the smoothed ridges and a series of long whalebacks *not said here* | little hint of the sudden rocky wildness of the precipitous dip | the harbour slopes | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hint=Theme to slope=Recipient | | 9 | **hint** | | the sudden rocky wildness of the precipitous dip | | | | | | nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/3/) - ↑ back to [“the Crest of the Rainbow.”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/)