--- title: It is but a little bit of a wood, this bush in the gully, but its al… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: It is but a little bit of a wood, this bush in the gully, but its aloofness and solitariness are made complete by the close-growing habit of the small timber and the great tossed-about rocks that help to seclude it. Who acts: intruder, growing habit, great tossed rocks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intruder, growing habit, great tossed rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:11:66 # text = It is but a little bit of a wood, this bush in the gully, but its aloofness and solitariness are made complete by the close-growing habit of the small timber and the great tossed-about rocks that help to seclude it. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 gully gully NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 aloofness aloofness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 solitariness solitariness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 24 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ _ 30 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 timber timber NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 38 tossed toss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 seclude seclude VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | intruder | a little bit | | | | of a wood and this bush in the gully | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | the growing habit of the small timber and the great tossed rocks | intruder's aloofness and solitariness | | | | complete *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **toss** | participle | | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | present | the great tossed rocks | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **seclude** | to-infinitive | the great tossed rocks *not said here* | intruder | | | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/67/) - ↑ back to [“the Crest of the Rainbow.”](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/)