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title: Just now we may content ourselves with the gentler scenes in Rapaki… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just now we may content ourselves with the gentler scenes in Rapaki valley, where the kowhai has shed its showers of gold and the _pakeha_ fruit trees in blossom sweeten the soft air deliciously. Who acts: we, fruit trees. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» b
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Rapaki: a Village By the Sea., sentence 99

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Just now we may content ourselves with the gentler scenes in Rapaki valley, where the kowhai has shed its showers of gold and the \_pakeha\_ fruit trees in blossom sweeten the soft air deliciously.

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**Who acts:** we, fruit trees · **What happens:** content, shed, sweeten · **To what, where:** ourselves, kowhai, soft air

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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, fruit trees), 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:pg73766:12:99
# text = Just now we may content ourselves with the gentler scenes in Rapaki valley, where the kowhai has shed its showers of gold and the _pakeha_ fruit trees in blossom sweeten the soft air deliciously.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	gentler	gentle	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kowhai	kowhai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	_
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	sweeten	sweeten	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	deliciously	deliciously	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | may | we | ourselves |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shed** | present · perfect · passive |  | the kowhai |  |  |  | kowhai's showers of gold and the \_ pakeha *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sweeten** | present | fruit trees in blossom | the soft air |  |  |  | with the gentler scenes in Rapaki valley; deliciously *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with scene=Instrument |

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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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