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title: Some of the tall _korari_ stalks are well in flower and bees are bus… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the tall _korari_ stalks are well in flower and bees are busy; on others the long dark-sheathed buds are just unfolding. Who acts: stalks, flower, long sheathed buds. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, with
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 30

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Some of the tall \_korari\_ stalks are well in flower and bees are busy; on others the long dark-sheathed buds are just unfolding.

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**Who acts:** stalks, flower, long sheathed buds · **What happens:** be, sheath, unfold · **To what, where:** flower, others

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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 (stalks, flower, long sheathed buds), 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:pg73766:11:30
# text = Some of the tall _korari_ stalks are well in flower and bees are busy; on others the long dark-sheathed buds are just unfolding.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	korari	korari	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	sheathed	sheath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	unfolding	unfold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some stalks of the tall korari |  |  | flower and bees |  | bees *conj*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | flower and bees |  |  | others |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sheath** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **unfold** | present · progressive | the long sheathed buds | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent other=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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