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title: Often at sunset a cloud-cap would rest lightly on the dark skull of… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Often at sunset a cloud-cap would rest lightly on the dark skull of the fairy crag, and to this cloud the declining sun would impart a bright red glow, the _kura_ of the Maori. Who acts: cloud cap, declining sun. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Co
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 39

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Often at sunset a cloud-cap would rest lightly on the dark skull of the fairy crag, and to this cloud the declining sun would impart a bright red glow, the \_kura\_ of the Maori.

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**Who acts:** cloud cap, declining sun · **What happens:** rest, decline, impart · **To what, where:** dark skull, bright red glow

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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 (cloud cap, declining sun), 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:pg73766:14:39
# text = Often at sunset a cloud-cap would rest lightly on the dark skull of the fairy crag, and to this cloud the declining sun would impart a bright red glow, the _kura_ of the Maori.
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crag	crag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	impart	impart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	kura	kura	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Maori	Maori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **rest** | would | a cloud cap |  |  | the dark skull of the fairy crag | sunset | lightly, often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skull=Location |
| 2 | **decline** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **impart** | would | the declining sun | a bright red glow and the \_ kura |  |  |  | to this cloud; the Maori *nmod* | tree rules |

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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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