--- title: In the little Maori _kainga_ of Rapaki, folded away in a valley-fan… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: In the little Maori _kainga_ of Rapaki, folded away in a valley-fan of Lyttelton harbour-side, there is a tiny, steep-roofed church, of old-fashioned build, and by the side of this church stands a twisty-branched old ribbonwood tree, that in summer showers over porch and steeple its sweet, snowy blo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) / [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/) / 1 # Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 1 In the little Maori \_kainga\_ of Rapaki, folded away in a valley-fan of Lyttelton harbour-side, there is a tiny, steep-roofed church, of old-fashioned build, and by the side of this church stands a twisty-branched old ribbonwood tree, that in summer showers over porch and steeple its sweet, snowy blossoms, scented like the orange tree. **Who acts:** tiny steep roofed church · **What happens:** fold away, be, roof, stand, branch, scent · **To what, where:** Rapaki, valley fan, little Maori, branched old ribbonwood tree, sweet snowy blossoms This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny steep roofed church), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73766:12:1 # text = In the little Maori _kainga_ of Rapaki, folded away in a valley-fan of Lyttelton harbour-side, there is a tiny, steep-roofed church, of old-fashioned build, and by the side of this church stands a twisty-branched old ribbonwood tree, that in summer showers over porch and steeple its sweet, snowy blossoms, scented like the orange tree. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Maori Maori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 5 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 kainga kainga X FW Foreign=Yes 4 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 7 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 9 punct _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Rapaki Rapaki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 folded fold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 Lyttelton Lyttelton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 20 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 roofed roof VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 build build NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 det _ _ 46 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 49 twisty twisty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 branched branch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 amod _ _ 52 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 53 ribbonwood ribbonwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 nmod _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 showers shower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 60 over over ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 porch porch NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 steeple steeple NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 64 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 65 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 70 scented scent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 68 acl _ _ 71 like like ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 73 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fold away** | participle | | Rapaki *not said here* | | a valley fan of Lyttelton harbour side | | away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **does** | present | a tiny steep roofed church and fashioned build | | | the little Maori; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in maori=Location | | 3 | **roof** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stand** | present | a tiny steep roofed church and fashioned build *not said here* | a branched old ribbonwood tree that in summer showers over porch and steeple and steeple's sweet snowy blossoms | | | | by the side of this church | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme by side=Destination | | 5 | **branch** | participle | | | | | | | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **scent** | participle | | steeple's sweet snowy blossoms *not said here* | | | | like the orange tree | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [“the Crest of the Rainbow.”, 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/11/87/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/2/) - ↑ back to [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/)