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title: Nevertheless, for those who like to preserve their Peter Pan fancies… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, for those who like to preserve their Peter Pan fancies and illusions this theory may cheerfully be disregarded, and we may still, on days of mist and cloudy calm, imagine the little tribes of the rocks flitting out from their caves and hollow trees and raising as of old their thin voic
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 73

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Nevertheless, for those who like to preserve their Peter Pan fancies and illusions this theory may cheerfully be disregarded, and we may still, on days of mist and cloudy calm, imagine the little tribes of the rocks flitting out from their caves and hollow trees and raising as of old their thin voices in their \_waiatas\_ and piping their fairy sweet \_koauau\_ music on the level hilltop of Otehore or the dark rock of Tamatea’s Breast.

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**Who acts:** you, rocks, Picts · **What happens:** like, preserve, disregard, imagine, flit out, raise · **To what, where:** Peter fancies, theory, little tribes, music, caves, fairy sweet koauau

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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 (you, rocks, Picts), 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:pg73766:14:73
# text = Nevertheless, for those who like to preserve their Peter Pan fancies and illusions this theory may cheerfully be disregarded, and we may still, on days of mist and cloudy calm, imagine the little tribes of the rocks flitting out from their caves and hollow trees and raising as of old their thin voices in their _waiatas_ and piping their fairy sweet _koauau_ music on the level hilltop of Otehore or the dark rock of Tamatea’s Breast.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	fancies	fancy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	illusions	illusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	disregarded	disregard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
35	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	flitting	flit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	conj	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	57	case	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	fixed	_	_
54	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
60	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	waiatas	waiata	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	piping	pipe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	conj	_	_
65	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
66	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
67	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
68	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	koauau	koauau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	71	punct	_	_
71	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
72	on	on	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
74	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
75	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
76	of	of	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
77	Otehore	Otehore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	75	nmod	_	_
78	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	81	cc	_	_
79	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
80	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	_
81	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	75	conj	_	_
82	of	of	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
83	Tamatea	Tamatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	85	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	’s	's	PART	POS	_	83	case	_	_
85	Breast	Breast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	81	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **preserve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Picts's Peter fancies and illusions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disregard** | may · passive |  | this theory |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the little tribes of the rocks |  |  |  | for those on days of mist; nevertheless *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tribe=Theme |
| 5 | **flit out** | gerund | the rocks *not said here* | music |  | Picts's caves and hollow trees |  | on the level hilltop of Otehore or the dark rock of Tamatea's Breast | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cave=Trajectory |
| 6 | **raise** | gerund | the rocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as Picts's old thin voices in Picts's waiatas | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pipe** | gerund | the rocks *not said here* | Picts's fairy sweet koauau |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent koauau=Theme |
| 8 | **fancy** |  | Picts *= pict* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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