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title: The dominating tors and marline-spikes of fire-born rock and the gre… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The dominating tors and marline-spikes of fire-born rock and the great up-swell of land on all sides but the sea ward off the cold winds. Who acts: born rock. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., with its dependenc
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 57

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The dominating tors and marline-spikes of fire-born rock and the great up-swell of land on all sides but the sea ward off the cold winds.

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**Who acts:** born rock · **What happens:** dominate, bear, spike · **To what, where:** dominating tors

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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 (born rock), 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:pg73766:12:57
# text = The dominating tors and marline-spikes of fire-born rock and the great up-swell of land on all sides but the sea ward off the cold winds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dominating	dominate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	tors	tor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	marline	marline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	swell	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ward	ward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dominate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fire *compound* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **spike** |  | born rock and the great up swell of land on all sides but the sea ward off the cold winds |  |  |  |  |  | nom spike «event intransitive»: of=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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