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title: It lends itself to more than one euphonious variant in the _pakeha_-… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It lends itself to more than one euphonious variant in the _pakeha_-tongue, as “Red Cloud’s Rest,” or “Place of the Sunset’s Glow.” Who acts: wester, Sunset. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist., with its dependenc
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 43

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It lends itself to more than one euphonious variant in the \_pakeha\_-tongue, as “Red Cloud’s Rest,” or “Place of the Sunset’s Glow.”

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**Who acts:** wester, Sunset · **What happens:** lend, glow · **To what, where:** wester

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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 (wester, Sunset), 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:pg73766:14:43
# text = It lends itself to more than one euphonious variant in the _pakeha_-tongue, as “Red Cloud’s Rest,” or “Place of the Sunset’s Glow.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lends	lend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	euphonious	euphonious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pakeha	pakeha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	Rest	Rest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	Glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | present | wester | wester |  |  |  | to one euphonious variant in the pakeha and tongue; Red Cloud and Rest or Place of the Sunset's Glow *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glow** *in a quote* |  | the Sunset |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: poss=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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