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title: Those grey-white parapets of fire-made rock are the Ashes of the Fir… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those grey-white parapets of fire-made rock are the Ashes of the Fires of Tamatea, and this is the wonderful tale of Tamatea and his magic fire, a tale of old which brings in, too, our great arrowhead peak, towering yonder on Rapaki’s western side, yon huge upjut lording it sentry-wise over the Maor
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 10

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Those grey-white parapets of fire-made rock are the Ashes of the Fires of Tamatea, and this is the wonderful tale of Tamatea and his magic fire, a tale of old which brings in, too, our great arrowhead peak, towering yonder on Rapaki’s western side, yon huge upjut lording it sentry-wise over the Maori \_kainga\_.

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**Who acts:** white parapets, this, tale, great arrowhead peak, yon huge upjut, Tamatea · **What happens:** make, be, bring in, tower, lord, fire · **To what, where:** Ashes, wonderful tale, western side, upjut, Maori

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white parapets, this, tale, great arrowhead peak), 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:pg73766:13:10
# text = Those grey-white parapets of fire-made rock are the Ashes of the Fires of Tamatea, and this is the wonderful tale of Tamatea and his magic fire, a tale of old which brings in, too, our great arrowhead peak, towering yonder on Rapaki’s western side, yon huge upjut lording it sentry-wise over the Maori _kainga_.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	parapets	parapet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Fires	Fire	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
44	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	arrowhead	arrowhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
49	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	’s	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
57	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	upjut	upjut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
59	lording	lord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	acl	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	parataxis	_	_
64	over	over	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
67	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	kainga	kainga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fire *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that white parapets of made rock | the Ashes and the Fires of Tamatea and the wonderful tale |  |  |  | the Fires of Tamatea and the wonderful tale *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this | the wonderful tale |  |  |  | of Tamatea and Tamatea's magic fire; a tale of old and our great arrowhead peak *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring in** | present | a tale of old and our great arrowhead peak |  |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tower** | gerund | our great arrowhead peak *not said here* |  |  | Rapaki's western side |  | yonder *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 6 | **lord** | gerund | yon huge upjut *not said here* | upjut |  | the Maori |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fire** |  | Tamatea |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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