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title: Behind the town of Akaroa, the grassy hills, lightly wooded here and… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind the town of Akaroa, the grassy hills, lightly wooded here and there like a beautiful wild park, culminate in a craggy skyline, more than a thousand feet above the fields and orchards on the town outskirts. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zeala
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 44

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Behind the town of Akaroa, the grassy hills, lightly wooded here and there like a beautiful wild park, culminate in a craggy skyline, more than a thousand feet above the fields and orchards on the town outskirts.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wood, culminate · **To what, where:** town

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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 (you), 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:pg73766:14:44
# text = Behind the town of Akaroa, the grassy hills, lightly wooded here and there like a beautiful wild park, culminate in a craggy skyline, more than a thousand feet above the fields and orchards on the town outskirts.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Akaroa	Akaroa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	culminate	culminate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	craggy	craggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	skyline	skyline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
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	28	obl	_	_
33	above	above	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wood** | participle |  | the town of Akaroa and the grassy hills *not said here* |  | here; there |  | like a beautiful wild park; lightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **culminate** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the town of Akaroa and the grassy hills |  | in a craggy skyline | 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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