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title: This is the Native name of Mount Pleasant, the great grassy upswell… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the Native name of Mount Pleasant, the great grassy upswell of land lifting sixteen hundred feet above sea-level and looking down serenely on the vast curving sand-line of Pegasus Bay. Who acts: This, land, vast. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”, sentence 2

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This is the Native name of Mount Pleasant, the great grassy upswell of land lifting sixteen hundred feet above sea-level and looking down serenely on the vast curving sand-line of Pegasus Bay.

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**Who acts:** This, land, vast · **What happens:** be, upswell, lift, look down, curve · **To what, where:** Native name, hundred feet, sea level, sand line

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Mount Pleasant and Its “tapu.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, land, vast), 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:pg73766:15:2
# text = This is the Native name of Mount Pleasant, the great grassy upswell of land lifting sixteen hundred feet above sea-level and looking down serenely on the vast curving sand-line of Pegasus Bay.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pleasant	Pleasant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	upswell	upswell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	serenely	serenely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	curving	curve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Pegasus	Pegasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | This | the Native name |  |  |  | of Mount Pleasant | tree rules |
| 2 | **upswell** | infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of land | tree rules |
| 3 | **lift** | gerund | land *not said here* | hundred feet |  | sea level |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme above level=Destination |
| 4 | **look down** | gerund | land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the vast; serenely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on vast=Theme |
| 5 | **curve** | gerund | the vast *not said here* | sand line of Pegasus Bay |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent line=Material |

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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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