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title: The little bush on either hand here runs almost to the ridge top, an… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The little bush on either hand here runs almost to the ridge top, and we come suddenly out of the _koromiko_ thicket on to the great cave-worn ramparts and have a clear track to the Summit Road again. Who acts: little bush, we. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zeala
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 73

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The little bush on either hand here runs almost to the ridge top, and we come suddenly out of the \_koromiko\_ thicket on to the great cave-worn ramparts and have a clear track to the Summit Road again.

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**Who acts:** little bush, we · **What happens:** run, come, have · **To what, where:** koromiko, clear track

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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 (little bush, we), 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:pg73766:11:73
# text = The little bush on either hand here runs almost to the ridge top, and we come suddenly out of the _koromiko_ thicket on to the great cave-worn ramparts and have a clear track to the Summit Road again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	koromiko	koromiko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
25	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Summit	Summit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the little bush on either hand |  |  | here |  | to the ridge top *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result |
| 2 | **come** | present | we |  |  | the koromiko and thicket on the great worn ramparts |  | suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out koromiko=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | we *not said here* | a clear track |  |  | again | to the Summit Road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=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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