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title: And don’t attempt to apply to our Maori Land nettle the amiable coun… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And don’t attempt to apply to our Maori Land nettle the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill that was given out to us in our school days:-- Who acts: you. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, with its dependency tree an
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 41

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And don’t attempt to apply to our Maori Land nettle the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill that was given out to us in our school days:--

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not attempt, not apply, nettle, give out · **To what, where:** amiable counsel, Maori Land, us

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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 (you), 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:pg73766:11:41
# text = And don’t attempt to apply to our Maori Land nettle the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill that was given out to us in our school days:--
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	nettle	nettle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **attempt** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **apply** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **nettle** | present |  | the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill | our Maori Land |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus counsel=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give out** | past · passive |  | the amiable counsel of old Aaron Hill | us |  | day |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient |

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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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