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title: Distance, aided by imagination, no doubt lent it additional enchantm… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Distance, aided by imagination, no doubt lent it additional enchantment. Who acts: Distance. 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 61

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Distance, aided by imagination, no doubt lent it additional enchantment.

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**Who acts:** Distance · **What happens:** aid, lend · **To what, where:** Distance, doubt

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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 (Distance), 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:pg73766:14:61
# text = Distance, aided by imagination, no doubt lent it additional enchantment.
1	Distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lent	lend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | participle |  | Distance *not said here* |  |  |  | by imagination | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lend** | past | Distance | doubt |  |  |  | additional enchantment *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient enchantment=Theme |

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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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