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title: The old English and Scottish belief in fairy people arose in much th… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old English and Scottish belief in fairy people arose in much the same way, the very word “pixy” comes from the name of the Picts, who were driven into the hills and caves. Who acts: English Scottish belief, word. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by Jam
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 72

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The old English and Scottish belief in fairy people arose in much the same way, the very word “pixy” comes from the name of the Picts, who were driven into the hills and caves.

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**Who acts:** English Scottish belief, word · **What happens:** arise, come, drive · **To what, where:** same way, name, Picts, hills

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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 (English Scottish belief, word), 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:pg73766:14:72
# text = The old English and Scottish belief in fairy people arose in much the same way, the very word “pixy” comes from the name of the Picts, who were driven into the hills and caves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
5	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pixy	pixy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Picts	Pict	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **arise** | past | English Scottish belief in fairy | the same way |  |  |  | people *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | the word | the same way *not said here* |  | the name |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the Picts |  | the hills and caves |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into hill=Trajectory |

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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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