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title: There was just the faintest of hazy films drawing over the nearer hi… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was just the faintest of hazy films drawing over the nearer hills from the waters. Who acts: hazy films. 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 every clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 3

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There was just the faintest of hazy films drawing over the nearer hills from the waters.

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**Who acts:** hazy films · **What happens:** be, draw · **To what, where:** nearer hills

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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 (hazy films), 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:pg73766:14:3
# text = There was just the faintest of hazy films drawing over the nearer hills from the waters.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	faintest	faint	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hazy	hazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of hazy films; faint *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund | hazy films *not said here* |  |  | the nearer hills from the waters |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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