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description: The fire did not stop here in its wonderful flight, for it went on across the harbour, and the white chute of rock, like a huge sheep-dip trough, shining yonder above the bay of Waiaki is the last of the sacred flames of Tamatea. Who acts: fire, prayer, huge dip trough, white chute. A sentence of «M
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 37

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The fire did not stop here in its wonderful flight, for it went on across the harbour, and the white chute of rock, like a huge sheep-dip trough, shining yonder above the bay of Waiaki is the last of the sacred flames of Tamatea.

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**Who acts:** fire, prayer, huge dip trough, white chute, Tamatea · **What happens:** not stop, go on, shine, be, flame · **To what, where:** wonderful flight, harbour, bay

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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 (fire, prayer, huge dip trough, white chute), 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:pg73766:13:37
# text = The fire did not stop here in its wonderful flight, for it went on across the harbour, and the white chute of rock, like a huge sheep-dip trough, shining yonder above the bay of Waiaki is the last of the sacred flames of Tamatea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	chute	chute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	dip	dip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
36	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	above	above	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Waiaki	Waiaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | the fire |  |  | prayer's wonderful flight; here |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flight=Location |
| 2 | **go on** | past | prayer |  |  | the harbour |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a huge dip trough *not said here* |  |  | the bay of Waiaki |  | yonder *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above bay=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | the white chute of rock |  |  |  |  | of the sacred flames of Tamatea; last *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flame** |  | Tamatea |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process 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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