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title: the tracks if you care for the exercise there is rock-climbing in pl… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: the tracks if you care for the exercise there is rock-climbing in plenty and there are scrambles under the low-growing trees and along steep faces hanging on to the flax clumps and the tough-branched _koromiko_. Who acts: tracks, rock climbing, steep faces. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Por
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 7

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the tracks if you care for the exercise there is rock-climbing in plenty and there are scrambles under the low-growing trees and along steep faces hanging on to the flax clumps and the tough-branched \_koromiko\_.

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**Who acts:** tracks, rock climbing, steep faces · **What happens:** care, be, grow, hang on, branch

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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 (tracks, rock climbing, steep faces), 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:pg73766:11:7
# text = the tracks if you care for the exercise there is rock-climbing in plenty and there are scrambles under the low-growing trees and along steep faces hanging on to the flax clumps and the tough-branched _koromiko_.
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
19	scrambles	scramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	clumps	clump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
38	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	branched	branch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	koromiko	koromiko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | present | the tracks |  |  |  |  | for the exercise; you *nsubj* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for exercise=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | rock climbing in plenty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hang on** | gerund | steep faces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the flax | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | rock climbing in plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the branched koromiko *conj*; clump *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **branch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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