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title: That old ribbonwood tree that quite overshadows the little Rapaki ch… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: That old ribbonwood tree that quite overshadows the little Rapaki church holds memories of the vanished forests that once clothed all these Port Hills and of the “flitting generations of mankind” it has so long outlived. Who acts: ribbonwood tree. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, C
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 61

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That old ribbonwood tree that quite overshadows the little Rapaki church holds memories of the vanished forests that once clothed all these Port Hills and of the “flitting generations of mankind” it has so long outlived.

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**Who acts:** ribbonwood tree · **What happens:** overshadow, hold, vanish, clothe, flit, outlive · **To what, where:** little Rapaki church, memories, vanished forests, tree

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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 (ribbonwood tree), 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:pg73766:12:61
# text = That old ribbonwood tree that quite overshadows the little Rapaki church holds memories of the vanished forests that once clothed all these Port Hills and of the “flitting generations of mankind” it has so long outlived.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ribbonwood	ribbonwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	overshadows	overshadow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Hills	Hill	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	flitting	flit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
38	outlived	outlive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overshadow** | present | that ribbonwood tree | the little Rapaki church |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent church=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | present | that ribbonwood tree | memories of the vanished forests |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 3 | **vanish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **clothe** | past |  | the vanished forests |  |  |  | all Port Hills and the flitting generations of mankind *obj*; once *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flit** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **outlive** | present · perfect · passive |  | tree |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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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