--- title: The sun goes, and the delicacy, the tenderness of colour, the fading… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics description: The sun goes, and the delicacy, the tenderness of colour, the fading of landscape details into a haze like the camp-fire smokes of the legendary _Patu-paiarehe_, weave a veil of faery over the valley and the darkening sea. Who acts: sun, landscape details, legendary. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, landscape details, legendary), 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:pg73766:12:107 # text = The sun goes, and the delicacy, the tenderness of colour, the fading of landscape details into a haze like the camp-fire smokes of the legendary _Patu-paiarehe_, weave a veil of faery over the valley and the darkening sea. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 delicacy delicacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tenderness tenderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fading fading NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 landscape landscape NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 haze haze NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 smokes smoke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 legendary legendary NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Patu Patu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 paiarehe paiarehe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 weave weave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 veil veil NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 faery faery NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 over over ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 darkening darken VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 amod _ _ 48 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | the sun | the delicacy | | a haze like the fire smokes of the legendary | | Patu paiarehe *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into haze=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **weave** | infinitive | | a veil of faery | | the valley and the darkening sea | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Product | | 3 | **darken** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **fade** | | landscape details | | | | | | nom fading «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 5 | **smoke** | | the legendary | | | | | | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/108/) - ↑ back to [Rapaki: a Village By the Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/12/)