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title: A misty shower is sweeping over the far indigo hills, and a rainbow… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A misty shower is sweeping over the far indigo hills, and a rainbow shines out, grandly spanning a sector of the Peninsula, from the back of Purau to the ocean. Who acts: misty shower, rainbow. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 76

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A misty shower is sweeping over the far indigo hills, and a rainbow shines out, grandly spanning a sector of the Peninsula, from the back of Purau to the ocean.

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**Who acts:** misty shower, rainbow · **What happens:** sweep, shine out, span · **To what, where:** far indigo hills, sector, back

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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 (misty shower, rainbow), 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:pg73766:11:76
# text = A misty shower is sweeping over the far indigo hills, and a rainbow shines out, grandly spanning a sector of the Peninsula, from the back of Purau to the ocean.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	indigo	indigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	grandly	grandly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sector	sector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Purau	Purau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | present · progressive | a misty shower |  |  | the far indigo hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shine out** | present | a rainbow |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **span** | gerund | a misty shower *not said here* | a sector of the Peninsula |  | the back of Purau |  | to the ocean | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sector=Co-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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