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title: This is the pinnacle above and to the north of the Hilltop Hotel, on… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the pinnacle above and to the north of the Hilltop Hotel, on the divide where the traveller gets his first sight of Akaroa lying more than a thousand feet below. Who acts: This, traveller. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 34

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This is the pinnacle above and to the north of the Hilltop Hotel, on the divide where the traveller gets his first sight of Akaroa lying more than a thousand feet below.

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**Who acts:** This, traveller · **What happens:** be, get, lie, sight · **To what, where:** pinnacle, first sight, thousand feet, Akaroa

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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 (This, traveller), 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:pg73766:14:34
# text = This is the pinnacle above and to the north of the Hilltop Hotel, on the divide where the traveller gets his first sight of Akaroa lying more than a thousand feet below.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pinnacle	pinnacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	above	above	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Hilltop	Hilltop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Hotel	Hotel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	divide	divide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Akaroa	Akaroa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	below	below	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the pinnacle and the north of the Hilltop Hotel and the divide |  |  |  | the north of the Hilltop Hotel *conj*; the divide *conj*; above *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | the traveller | traveller's first sight of Akaroa |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the traveller *not said here* | thousand feet |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sight** |  | traveller | Akaroa |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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