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title: As we make upwards, with care evading the diabolical _ongaonga_ that… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: As we make upwards, with care evading the diabolical _ongaonga_ that haunts the bush outskirts, we strike a steep face, with here and there a dripping of water glistening on the moss-crusted rock and on the little flax and _koromiko_ plants that root themselves in tiny crevices. Who acts: we, care, 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 69

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As we make upwards, with care evading the diabolical \_ongaonga\_ that haunts the bush outskirts, we strike a steep face, with here and there a dripping of water glistening on the moss-crusted rock and on the little flax and \_koromiko\_ plants that root themselves in tiny crevices.

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**Who acts:** we, care, that, dripping, plants · **What happens:** make, evade, haunt, strike, glisten, crust · **To what, where:** diabolical, bush outskirts, steep face, plants, crusted rock, faces

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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 (we, care, that, dripping), 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:pg73766:11:69
# text = As we make upwards, with care evading the diabolical _ongaonga_ that haunts the bush outskirts, we strike a steep face, with here and there a dripping of water glistening on the moss-crusted rock and on the little flax and _koromiko_ plants that root themselves in tiny crevices.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	evading	evade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ongaonga	ongaonga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bush	bush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dripping	dripping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	crusted	crust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	koromiko	koromiko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	_
50	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	root	root	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	52	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	crevices	crevice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | we |  |  |  |  | with care; upwards *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **evade** | gerund | care *not said here* | the diabolical |  |  |  | ongaonga *obl* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent diabolical=Location |
| 3 | **haunt** | present | that | the bush outskirts |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus outskirt=Experiencer |
| 4 | **strike** | present | we | a steep face |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 5 | **glisten** | gerund | a dripping of water *not said here* | plants |  | the crusted rock and the little flax and koromiko |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location |
| 6 | **crust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | moss *compound* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **root** | present | plants | faces *= face* |  | tiny crevices |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=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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