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title: their nippled upswells, dreamy on sunny days in their delicate wash… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: their nippled upswells, dreamy on sunny days in their delicate wash of hazy blue. 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 clause.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 49

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their nippled upswells, dreamy on sunny days in their delicate wash of hazy blue.

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**What happens:** nipple

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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: 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:pg73766:14:49
# text = their nippled upswells, dreamy on sunny days in their delicate wash of hazy blue.
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nippled	nipple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	upswells	upswell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	hazy	hazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nipple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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