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title: Also there are the high rocky peaks which overlook Akaroa Harbour--P… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Also there are the high rocky peaks which overlook Akaroa Harbour--Pu-Waitaha, or French Hill, between Wainui settlement and Buchanan’s; Otehore, a rocky flat-topped height above French Farm, on the upper part of the harbour; the summit heights above Akaroa town, Purple Peak, Mount Berard and Brazen
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 21

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Also there are the high rocky peaks which overlook Akaroa Harbour--Pu-Waitaha, or French Hill, between Wainui settlement and Buchanan’s; Otehore, a rocky flat-topped height above French Farm, on the upper part of the harbour; the summit heights above Akaroa town, Purple Peak, Mount Berard and Brazenose--these we call O-te-Patatu, Tara-te-rehu, and Otoki; and lastly Tuhiraki, the sky-pencilling peak, which the French named Mount Bossu, on the western side of the harbour.

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**Who acts:** high rocky peaks, we, French · **What happens:** be, overlook, top, call, name · **To what, where:** O te, pencilling peak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (high rocky peaks, we, French), 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:pg73766:14:21
# text = Also there are the high rocky peaks which overlook Akaroa Harbour--Pu-Waitaha, or French Hill, between Wainui settlement and Buchanan’s; Otehore, a rocky flat-topped height above French Farm, on the upper part of the harbour; the summit heights above Akaroa town, Purple Peak, Mount Berard and Brazenose--these we call O-te-Patatu, Tara-te-rehu, and Otoki; and lastly Tuhiraki, the sky-pencilling peak, which the French named Mount Bossu, on the western side of the harbour.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	overlook	overlook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Akaroa	Akaroa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Pu	Pu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Waitaha	Waitaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Wainui	Wainui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Buchanan	Buchanan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Otehore	Otehore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
31	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
32	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	topped	top	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
36	above	above	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
51	above	above	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	Akaroa	Akaroa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	Purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	Peak	Peak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	_
59	Berard	Berard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	flat	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	Brazenose	Brazenose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	56	appos	_	_
64	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	acl:relcl	_	_
66	O	o	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	68	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	70	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	Patatu	Patatu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
72	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	te	te	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	74	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	rehu	rehu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	79	punct	_	_
78	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	79	cc	_	_
79	Otoki	Otoki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	83	punct	_	_
81	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	83	cc	_	_
82	lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	83	amod	_	_
83	Tuhiraki	Tuhiraki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	89	punct	_	_
85	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	89	det	_	_
86	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	88	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	86	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	pencilling	pencilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	compound	_	_
89	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	94	punct	_	_
91	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	94	obj	_	_
92	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	93	det	_	_
93	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	94	nsubj	_	_
94	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	89	acl:relcl	_	_
95	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	94	xcomp	_	_
96	Bossu	Bossu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	95	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
97	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	101	punct	_	_
98	on	on	ADP	IN	_	101	case	_	_
99	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	101	det	_	_
100	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	101	amod	_	_
101	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	appos	_	_
102	of	of	ADP	IN	_	104	case	_	_
103	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	104	det	_	_
104	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	101	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
105	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | the high rocky peaks |  |  | there |  | Otehore *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **overlook** | present | the high rocky peaks |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **top** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | we | O te |  |  |  | lastly Tuhiraki *parataxis* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent te=Recipient |
| 5 | **name** | past | the French | the pencilling peak |  |  |  | Mount *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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