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title: Away up yonder, in the Ohura Valley, between the open lands of the K… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Away up yonder, in the Ohura Valley, between the open lands of the King Country and Taranaki, the _ongaonga_ grew into tall shrubs, ten or twelve feet high, and its virulence apparently was in proportion to its growth. Who acts: Ohura Valley, valley. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 36

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Away up yonder, in the Ohura Valley, between the open lands of the King Country and Taranaki, the \_ongaonga\_ grew into tall shrubs, ten or twelve feet high, and its virulence apparently was in proportion to its growth.

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**Who acts:** Ohura Valley, valley · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** virulence, tall shrubs, proportion

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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 (Ohura Valley, valley), 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:pg73766:11:36
# text = Away up yonder, in the Ohura Valley, between the open lands of the King Country and Taranaki, the _ongaonga_ grew into tall shrubs, ten or twelve feet high, and its virulence apparently was in proportion to its growth.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ohura	Ohura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Taranaki	Taranaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ongaonga	ongaonga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
25	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
33	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	virulence	virulence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
39	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Ohura Valley and the open lands of the King Country and Taranaki and the ongaonga | valley's virulence |  |  |  | into tall shrubs *result*; yonder *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into shrub=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | proportion |  | to valley's growth; apparently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** |  | valley |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=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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