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title: [Footnote 2: Carved above the porch of the Summit Road Rest House on… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 2: Carved above the porch of the Summit Road Rest House on Dyer’s Pass.] 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 87

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\[Footnote 2: Carved above the porch of the Summit Road Rest House on Dyer’s Pass.\]

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**What happens:** carve · **To what, where:** Footnote, porch

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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: 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:pg73766:11:88
# text = [Footnote 2: Carved above the porch of the Summit Road Rest House on Dyer’s Pass.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Summit	Summit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rest	Rest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Dyer	Dyer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Pass	Pass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | Footnote *not said here* |  | the porch of the Rest House |  | on Dyer's Pass | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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