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title: The rich purple of distance painted the most remote of the Peninsula… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rich purple of distance painted the most remote of the Peninsula peaks, and here and there a wispy tail of mist floated about the head of a gully that cleft the crumpled hills swelling up into the rocky summits of the Pohue and the Ahu-patiki. Who acts: rich purple, remote, that, crumpled hills.
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 5

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The rich purple of distance painted the most remote of the Peninsula peaks, and here and there a wispy tail of mist floated about the head of a gully that cleft the crumpled hills swelling up into the rocky summits of the Pohue and the Ahu-patiki.

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**Who acts:** rich purple, remote, that, crumpled hills · **What happens:** paint, peak, float, cleft, crumple, swell up · **To what, where:** mist, rocky summits

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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 (rich purple, remote, that, crumpled hills), 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:pg73766:14:5
# text = The rich purple of distance painted the most remote of the Peninsula peaks, and here and there a wispy tail of mist floated about the head of a gully that cleft the crumpled hills swelling up into the rocky summits of the Pohue and the Ahu-patiki.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	peaks	peak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wispy	wispy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	crumpled	crumple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	appos	_	_
36	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Pohue	Pohue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	Ahu	Ahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	patiki	patiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **paint** | past | the rich purple of distance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **peak** | present | the remote of the Peninsula |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **float** | participle |  | mist *not said here* |  |  |  | about the head of a gully and cleft | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about head=Trajectory |
| 4 | **cleft** |  | that |  |  |  |  | the crumpled hills *appos* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crumple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **swell up** | gerund | the crumpled hills *not said here* |  |  | the rocky summits of the Pohue and the Ahu patiki |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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