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title: _Aka_ vines interlace the close-growing trees and here and there pre… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Aka_ vines interlace the close-growing trees and here and there present tangling obstacles to a passage along the gully sides. Who acts: vines. 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 and the p
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 49

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\_Aka\_ vines interlace the close-growing trees and here and there present tangling obstacles to a passage along the gully sides.

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**Who acts:** vines · **What happens:** interlace, grow · **To what, where:** growing trees

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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 (vines), 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:pg73766:11:49
# text = _Aka_ vines interlace the close-growing trees and here and there present tangling obstacles to a passage along the gully sides.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Aka	aka	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
4	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	interlace	interlace	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	tangling	tangling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	along	along	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interlace** | infinitive | vines | the growing trees and there's present tangling obstacles |  |  |  | to a passage along the gully sides; aka *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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