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title: Really bad _ongaonga_ stings provoke feverish sickness; and so it is… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Really bad _ongaonga_ stings provoke feverish sickness; and so it is prudent to make a detour on these hill slopes rather than encounter over-closely even these insignificant little specimens. Who acts: stings, sickness, detour. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zeal
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 39

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Really bad \_ongaonga\_ stings provoke feverish sickness; and so it is prudent to make a detour on these hill slopes rather than encounter over-closely even these insignificant little specimens.

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**Who acts:** stings, sickness, detour · **What happens:** provoke, be, make, slope · **To what, where:** feverish sickness, insignificant little specimens

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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 (stings, sickness, detour), 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:pg73766:11:39
# text = Really bad _ongaonga_ stings provoke feverish sickness; and so it is prudent to make a detour on these hill slopes rather than encounter over-closely even these insignificant little specimens.
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ongaonga	ongaonga	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
6	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	provoke	provoke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	feverish	feverish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	detour	detour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	slopes	slope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	encounter	encounter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	over-closely	over-closely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
30	insignificant	insignificant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provoke** | present | stings | feverish sickness |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sickness=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | sickness |  |  |  |  | prudent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | sickness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slope** | present | a detour on this hill | this insignificant little specimens |  |  |  | encounter *conj* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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