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title: That bit of beach is over-rough; but a little way to the north, unde… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: That bit of beach is over-rough; but a little way to the north, under the lee of a wild bit of a rocky headland thick with beautiful light bush, is a gem of a white beach, clean and hard and shining, a sandy alcove that must have been made for picnicking. Who acts: little way. A sentence of «Maori f
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 102

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That bit of beach is over-rough; but a little way to the north, under the lee of a wild bit of a rocky headland thick with beautiful light bush, is a gem of a white beach, clean and hard and shining, a sandy alcove that must have been made for picnicking.

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**Who acts:** little way · **What happens:** be, shine, make, picnic · **To what, where:** gem, sandy alcove

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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 (little way), 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:pg73766:12:102
# text = That bit of beach is over-rough; but a little way to the north, under the lee of a wild bit of a rocky headland thick with beautiful light bush, is a gem of a white beach, clean and hard and shining, a sandy alcove that must have been made for picnicking.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over-rough	over-rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lee	lee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	alcove	alcove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obl	_	_
51	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux	_	_
53	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
55	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
56	picnicking	picnic	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | that bit of beach *obl:unmarked*; over-rough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a little way to the north and the lee of a wild bit of a rocky headland | a gem and a sandy alcove |  |  |  | of a white beach; a sandy alcove *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a little way to the north and the lee of a wild bit of a rocky headland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | must · perfect · passive |  | a sandy alcove |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 5 | **picnic** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «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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