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title: The curving lines converge, the shouldering ridges fall away as the… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The curving lines converge, the shouldering ridges fall away as the now dry watercourses blend into one hundreds of feet below the rocky elbow of ours. Who acts: curving lines, shouldering ridges, dry watercourses. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 57

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The curving lines converge, the shouldering ridges fall away as the now dry watercourses blend into one hundreds of feet below the rocky elbow of ours.

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**Who acts:** curving lines, shouldering ridges, dry watercourses · **What happens:** converge, fall away, blend

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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 (curving lines, shouldering ridges, dry watercourses), 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:pg73766:11:57
# text = The curving lines converge, the shouldering ridges fall away as the now dry watercourses blend into one hundreds of feet below the rocky elbow of ours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	curving	curving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	converge	converge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	shouldering	shouldering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	watercourses	watercourse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	blend	blend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	below	below	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **converge** | present | the curving lines |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall away** | present | the shouldering ridges |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **blend** | present | the dry watercourses |  |  |  |  | below the rocky elbow of ours; into one hundreds of feet | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into hundred=Co-Patient |

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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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