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title: When the bush bird-foods are ripe the _tui_ sometimes pays this vall… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the bush bird-foods are ripe the _tui_ sometimes pays this valley a visit from larger woodland tracks. Who acts: bush bird foods, _ tui. 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 prag
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 60

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When the bush bird-foods are ripe the \_tui\_ sometimes pays this valley a visit from larger woodland tracks.

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**Who acts:** bush bird foods, \_ tui · **What happens:** be, pay · **To what, where:** valley

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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 (bush bird foods, \_ tui), 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:pg73766:11:60
# text = When the bush bird-foods are ripe the _tui_ sometimes pays this valley a visit from larger woodland tracks.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	bush	bush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tui	tui	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
21	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bush bird foods |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present | the \_ tui | this valley |  |  |  | a visit *obj*; sometimes *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent valley=Recipient visit=Asset |

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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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