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title: The Boy Scout sidles warily past those bushes of _ongaonga_ when he… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Boy Scout sidles warily past those bushes of _ongaonga_ when he is told of its poisonous qualities, and of an experience the narrator had with it years ago in the King Country bush. Who acts: Boy Scout, narrator. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by Jame
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 35

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The Boy Scout sidles warily past those bushes of \_ongaonga\_ when he is told of its poisonous qualities, and of an experience the narrator had with it years ago in the King Country bush.

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**Who acts:** Boy Scout, narrator · **What happens:** sidle, tell, have · **To what, where:** bushes, breeze, bush · **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 (Boy Scout, narrator), 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:pg73766:11:35
# text = The Boy Scout sidles warily past those bushes of _ongaonga_ when he is told of its poisonous qualities, and of an experience the narrator had with it years ago in the King Country bush.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Scout	Scout	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sidles	sidle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	warily	warily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ongaonga	ongaonga	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:desc	_	_
36	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:desc	_	_
37	bush	Bush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sidle** | present | the Boy Scout |  |  | that bushes |  | warily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past bush=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | breeze |  |  |  | of bush's poisonous qualities | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | the narrator |  |  | the bush  King  Country |  | of a experience; with bush; ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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