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title: Other of the trees take goblin-like shapes, and stretch out their ba… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Other of the trees take goblin-like shapes, and stretch out their bare roots and feelers, unsoftened by carpet of moss or ferns, to trip the intruder into their dim solitudes. Who acts: Other. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of t
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 65

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Other of the trees take goblin-like shapes, and stretch out their bare roots and feelers, unsoftened by carpet of moss or ferns, to trip the intruder into their dim solitudes.

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**Who acts:** Other · **What happens:** take, stretch out, unsoften, trip · **To what, where:** like shapes, bare roots, intruder, dim solitudes

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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 (Other), 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:pg73766:11:65
# text = Other of the trees take goblin-like shapes, and stretch out their bare roots and feelers, unsoftened by carpet of moss or ferns, to trip the intruder into their dim solitudes.
1	Other	Other	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	feelers	feeler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	unsoftened	unsoften	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	trip	trip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	intruder	intruder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	solitudes	solitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Other | like shapes |  |  |  | of the trees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent shape=Theme of tree=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stretch out** | infinitive | Other *not said here* | trees's bare roots and feelers |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 3 | **unsoften** | participle |  | trees's bare roots and feelers *not said here* |  |  |  | by carpet of moss or ferns | tree rules |
| 4 | **trip** | to-infinitive |  | the intruder |  | trees's dim solitudes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent intruder=Theme into solitude=Trajectory |

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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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