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title: Above there is a jungle of _koromiko_, a veronica which here assumes… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Above there is a jungle of _koromiko_, a veronica which here assumes sub-alpine habit, and weaves a wire entanglement, fortunately minus the barbs--the _tataramoa_ or bush-lawyer in the thicket below supplies those in plenty. Who acts: jungle, veronica. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hi
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 71

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Above there is a jungle of \_koromiko\_, a veronica which here assumes sub-alpine habit, and weaves a wire entanglement, fortunately minus the barbs--the \_tataramoa\_ or bush-lawyer in the thicket below supplies those in plenty.

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**Who acts:** jungle, veronica · **What happens:** be, assume, weave · **To what, where:** sub-alpine habit, wire entanglement

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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 (jungle, veronica), 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:pg73766:11:71
# text = Above there is a jungle of _koromiko_, a veronica which here assumes sub-alpine habit, and weaves a wire entanglement, fortunately minus the barbs--the _tataramoa_ or bush-lawyer in the thicket below supplies those in plenty.
1	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	koromiko	koromiko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	veronica	veronica	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	assumes	assume	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	sub-alpine	sub-alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	weaves	weave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	entanglement	entanglement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	barbs	barb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tataramoa	tataramoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	below	below	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	40	nmod	_	_
43	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	nmod	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a jungle of koromiko and a veronica |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **assume** | present | a veronica | sub-alpine habit |  | here |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Theme |
| 3 | **weave** | present |  | a wire entanglement |  |  |  | minus the barbs  the tataramoa \_ or bush lawyer in the thicket below supplies  those in plenty | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entanglement=Product |

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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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