---
title: Sometimes, when the mists came down and the fog enveloped the hills,… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes, when the mists came down and the fog enveloped the hills, on still, calm days our old men and women would say the fairies were out, the sun-shunning _Patu-paiarehe_, and it were well not to venture up the range. Who acts: mists, fog, old men, fairies. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of th
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/14/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/) / [The Little People of the Mist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/14/) / 13

# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sometimes, when the mists came down and the fog enveloped the hills, on still, calm days our old men and women would say the fairies were out, the sun-shunning \_Patu-paiarehe\_, and it were well not to venture up the range.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** mists, fog, old men, fairies, sun, mist · **What happens:** come down, envelop, say, be out, shun, not venture up · **To what, where:** hills, fairies, range · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mists, fog, old men, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:14:13
# text = Sometimes, when the mists came down and the fog enveloped the hills, on still, calm days our old men and women would say the fairies were out, the sun-shunning _Patu-paiarehe_, and it were well not to venture up the range.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	enveloped	envelop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	shunning	shun	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	ccomp	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Patu	Patu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
45	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
49	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | the mists |  |  |  |  | down, sometimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **envelop** | past | the fog | the hills |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | our old men and women | the fairies |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be out** | past | the fairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shun** | gerund | the sun |  |  |  |  | Patu paiarehe *conj* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **venture up** | past | mist | the range |  |  |  | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent range=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/14/12/)
- next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/14/14/)
- ↑ back to [The Little People of the Mist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73766/14/)