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title: All of our exploring party were more or less badly stung and suffere… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: All of our exploring party were more or less badly stung and suffered the effects for a day or two, but the unfortunate horses suffered most. Who acts: All, unfortunate horses. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, wi
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 37

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All of our exploring party were more or less badly stung and suffered the effects for a day or two, but the unfortunate horses suffered most.

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**Who acts:** All, unfortunate horses · **What happens:** explore, be, sting, suffer · **To what, where:** effects

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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 (All, unfortunate horses), 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:pg73766:11:37
# text = All of our exploring party were more or less badly stung and suffered the effects for a day or two, but the unfortunate horses suffered most.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	exploring	explore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	stung	sting	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sting** | past | All of our exploring party |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **suffer** | past | All of our exploring party *not said here* | the effects |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer effect=Stimulus |
| 5 | **suffer** | past | the unfortunate horses |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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