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title: “Now, amongst the fairy _pas_,” the word-of-mouth historian went on,… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, amongst the fairy _pas_,” the word-of-mouth historian went on, “there are two places of particular enchantment. Who acts: historian, two places. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist., with its dependency tree 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 23

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“Now, amongst the fairy \_pas\_,” the word-of-mouth historian went on, “there are two places of particular enchantment.

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**Who acts:** historian, two places · **What happens:** go on, be

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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 (historian, two places), 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:pg73766:14:23
# text = “Now, amongst the fairy _pas_,” the word-of-mouth historian went on, “there are two places of particular enchantment.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pas	pa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	appos	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | historian |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | two places of particular enchantment |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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