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title: The sea below us at Rapaki lay in unbreathing quiet, as soft, as bri… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea below us at Rapaki lay in unbreathing quiet, as soft, as bright and blue as Kipling’s Indian Ocean. Who acts: sea. 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 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 4

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The sea below us at Rapaki lay in unbreathing quiet, as soft, as bright and blue as Kipling’s Indian Ocean.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** unbreathing quiet

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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 (sea), 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:pg73766:14:4
# text = The sea below us at Rapaki lay in unbreathing quiet, as soft, as bright and blue as Kipling’s Indian Ocean.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	below	below	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Rapaki	Rapaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	unbreathing	unbreathing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the sea below us at Rapaki |  |  | unbreathing quiet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in quiet=Location |

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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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