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title: pathway, through the Devil’s Staircase, or The Remarkable Dykes (on… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: pathway, through the Devil’s Staircase, or The Remarkable Dykes (on the way to Kaituna)] 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 69

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pathway, through the Devil’s Staircase, or The Remarkable Dykes (on the way to Kaituna)\]

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**To what, where:** pathway

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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:pg73766:14:69
# text = pathway, through the Devil’s Staircase, or The Remarkable Dykes (on the way to Kaituna)]
1	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Staircase	Staircase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Remarkable	Remarkable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Dykes	dyke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kaituna	Kaituna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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