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title: One is that lofty palisade of a peak which you call Brazenose, and t… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: One is that lofty palisade of a peak which you call Brazenose, and the level-topped hill above French Farm. Who acts: One, you. 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 and the pragmatics of e
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 24

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One is that lofty palisade of a peak which you call Brazenose, and the level-topped hill above French Farm.

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**Who acts:** One, you · **What happens:** be, call, top · **To what, where:** lofty palisade, 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 (One, you), 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:pg73766:14:24
# text = One is that lofty palisade of a peak which you call Brazenose, and the level-topped hill above French Farm.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	palisade	palisade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	Brazenose	Brazenose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	topped	top	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | One | lofty palisade and the topped hill above French Farm |  |  |  | of a peak; the topped hill above French Farm *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | you | a peak |  |  |  | Brazenose *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 3 | **top** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | level *compound* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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