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title: And from this hillside turn in the road where we get our first glimp… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And from this hillside turn in the road where we get our first glimpse of Rapaki, we may also most fitly take our sunset farewell of the _kainga_ of an artist’s dream. Who acts: we, our, artist. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Vil
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 103

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And from this hillside turn in the road where we get our first glimpse of Rapaki, we may also most fitly take our sunset farewell of the \_kainga\_ of an artist’s dream.

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**Who acts:** we, our, artist · **What happens:** get, take, glimpse, dream · **To what, where:** first glimpse, sunset farewell, hillside turn, Rapaki

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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 (we, our, artist), 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:pg73766:12:103
# text = And from this hillside turn in the road where we get our first glimpse of Rapaki, we may also most fitly take our sunset farewell of the _kainga_ of an artist’s dream.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	fitly	fitly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	kainga	kainga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	discourse	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | we | our first glimpse of Rapaki |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | may | we | our sunset farewell of the kainga |  | this hillside turn in the road |  | fitly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme from turn=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **glimpse** |  | our | Rapaki |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 4 | **dream** |  | a artist |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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