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title: “My eyes are like the wind-waved _korari_ blossoms; when the breeze… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “My eyes are like the wind-waved _korari_ blossoms; when the breeze shakes the flowers down fall the honey showers; so flow my tears.” Who acts: eyes, breeze, flowers. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, with its de
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 33

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“My eyes are like the wind-waved \_korari\_ blossoms; when the breeze shakes the flowers down fall the honey showers; so flow my tears.”

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**Who acts:** eyes, breeze, flowers · **What happens:** wave, be, shake, fall, flow · **To what, where:** honey showers, tears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eyes, breeze, flowers), 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:pg73766:11:33
# text = “My eyes are like the wind-waved _korari_ blossoms; when the breeze shakes the flowers down fall the honey showers; so flow my tears.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	korari	korari	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | wind *compound* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My eyes |  |  |  |  | like the waved korari and blossoms; blossoms *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** *in a quote* | present | the breeze |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** *in a quote* | present | the flowers | the honey showers |  |  |  | down *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shower=Result |
| 5 | **flow** *in a quote* | infinitive | My eyes *not said here* | my tears |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=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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