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title: “This,” announces the mentor as the class clusters round, “is a very… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “This,” announces the mentor as the class clusters round, “is a very peculiar plant, Urtica ferox, so called because----” Who acts: This, class. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 81

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“This,” announces the mentor as the class clusters round, “is a very peculiar plant, Urtica ferox, so called because----”

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**Who acts:** This, class · **What happens:** announce, cluster, be, call · **To what, where:** mentor, peculiar plant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, class), 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:pg73766:11:81
# text = “This,” announces the mentor as the class clusters round, “is a very peculiar plant, Urtica ferox, so called because----”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	announces	announce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mentor	mentor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	clusters	cluster	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Urtica	Urtica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ferox	ferox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | This | the mentor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cluster** | present | the class |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a peculiar plant |  |  |  | Urtica ferox *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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