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title: The graceful lacebark or ribbonwood, too, is here in plenty; there a… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The graceful lacebark or ribbonwood, too, is here in plenty; there are some beautiful specimens on these hills and slopes, and finest of all perhaps is the grand old _houi_ that overshades the little Maori Church at Rapaki. Who acts: graceful lacebark, beautiful specimens, _. A sentence of «Maori fo
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 48

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The graceful lacebark or ribbonwood, too, is here in plenty; there are some beautiful specimens on these hills and slopes, and finest of all perhaps is the grand old \_houi\_ that overshades the little Maori Church at Rapaki.

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**Who acts:** graceful lacebark, beautiful specimens, \_ · **What happens:** be, overshade · **To what, where:** plenty, little Maori Church, Rapaki

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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 (graceful lacebark, beautiful specimens, \_), 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:pg73766:11:48
# text = The graceful lacebark or ribbonwood, too, is here in plenty; there are some beautiful specimens on these hills and slopes, and finest of all perhaps is the grand old _houi_ that overshades the little Maori Church at Rapaki.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lacebark	lacebark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ribbonwood	ribbonwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	houi	houi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	overshades	overshade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the graceful lacebark or ribbonwood |  |  | plenty |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | some beautiful specimens on this hills and slopes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | the graceful lacebark or ribbonwood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of all | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the graceful lacebark or ribbonwood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | \_  houi *conj*; old, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **overshade** | present | \_  houi | the little Maori Church |  | Rapaki |  |  | tree rules |

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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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