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title: The inside of the valley, too, is given the semblance of a fan by th… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The inside of the valley, too, is given the semblance of a fan by the numerous converging tributary gullies, separated by grassy and flax-grown ridges. Who acts: numerous converging tributary gullies. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Cr
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 54

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The inside of the valley, too, is given the semblance of a fan by the numerous converging tributary gullies, separated by grassy and flax-grown ridges.

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**Who acts:** numerous converging tributary gullies · **What happens:** give, converge, separate, grow · **To what, where:** inside, numerous converging tributary gullies

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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 (numerous converging tributary gullies), 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:pg73766:11:54
# text = The inside of the valley, too, is given the semblance of a fan by the numerous converging tributary gullies, separated by grassy and flax-grown ridges.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	semblance	semblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	converging	converge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
20	tributary	tributary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	gullies	gully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive | the numerous converging tributary gullies | the inside of the valley |  |  |  | the semblance of a fan *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient semblance=Theme |
| 2 | **converge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **separate** | participle |  | the numerous converging tributary gullies *not said here* |  |  |  | by grassy; grown ridges *conj* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | flax *compound* | 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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