--- title: Then, turning in the other direction, he spoke of the fish-teeming w… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: Then, turning in the other direction, he spoke of the fish-teeming waters of the harbour, where flounders, shark, and other _kai-matai-tai_, “food of the salt sea,” were to be had in abundance. Who acts: Waitai. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waitai), 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:pg73766:11:26 # text = Then, turning in the other direction, he spoke of the fish-teeming waters of the harbour, where flounders, shark, and other _kai-matai-tai_, “food of the salt sea,” were to be had in abundance. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 teeming teem VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 22 flounders flounder VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 advcl _ _ 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 kai kai X FW _ 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 matai matai NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 tai tai X FW Foreign=Yes 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | Waitai *not said here* | | | the other direction | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Waitai | | | | | of the teeming waters of the harbour | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **teem** | gerund | | | | | | fish *compound* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **flounder** | present | | shark | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past · passive | Waitai *not said here* | | | abundance | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/27/) - ↑ back to [“the Crest of the Rainbow.”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/)