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title: And as he and his companions came out of the bush and passed out on… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he and his companions came out of the bush and passed out on to the summit of the mountain above Rapaki, a great storm of wind and rain, followed by hail and snow, burst upon them from the south and they were like to perish from the cold. Who acts: Maoris, gods, wind. A sentence of «Maori fol
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 31

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And as he and his companions came out of the bush and passed out on to the summit of the mountain above Rapaki, a great storm of wind and rain, followed by hail and snow, burst upon them from the south and they were like to perish from the cold.

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**Who acts:** Maoris, gods, wind · **What happens:** come out, pass out, follow, burst, perish, storm · **To what, where:** bush, summit, great storm, south, cold

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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 (Maoris, gods, wind), 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:pg73766:13:31
# text = And as he and his companions came out of the bush and passed out on to the summit of the mountain above Rapaki, a great storm of wind and rain, followed by hail and snow, burst upon them from the south and they were like to perish from the cold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | Maoris | the bush and a great storm of wind and rain |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bush=Result |
| 2 | **pass out** | participle | Maoris *not said here* |  |  | the summit of the mountain above Rapaki |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | a great storm of wind and rain *not said here* |  |  |  | by hail and snow | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hail=Location |
| 4 | **burst** | infinitive | Maoris *not said here* |  |  | the south |  | upon hail | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 5 | **perish** | past | gods *= god* |  |  | the cold |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cold=Causer |
| 6 | **storm** |  | wind and rain |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon 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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