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title: Flax-flower honey-water makes a pleasant enough drink, and the Boy S… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Flax-flower honey-water makes a pleasant enough drink, and the Boy Scout tastes and pronounces it good. Who acts: Flax flower, Boy Scout. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 31

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Flax-flower honey-water makes a pleasant enough drink, and the Boy Scout tastes and pronounces it good.

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**Who acts:** Flax flower, Boy Scout · **What happens:** make, taste, pronounce · **To what, where:** pleasant enough drink, Scout

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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 (Flax flower, Boy Scout), 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:pg73766:11:31
# text = Flax-flower honey-water makes a pleasant enough drink, and the Boy Scout tastes and pronounces it good.
1	Flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Scout	Scout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pronounces	pronounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Flax flower  honey water | a pleasant enough drink |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product |
| 2 | **taste** | present | the Boy Scout |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pronounce** | present | the Boy Scout *not said here* | Scout |  |  |  | good *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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