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title: Legends of the _Patu-paiarehe_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsul… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Legends of the _Patu-paiarehe_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsula Hills--Mountains of Enchantment--“The Red Cloud’s Rest”--The Fairies and the Mutton-birds--The Maero of the Woods--Mount Pleasant and its _Tapu_ 61 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, Chapter VI. Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist, sentence 1

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Legends of the \_Patu-paiarehe\_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsula Hills--Mountains of Enchantment--“The Red Cloud’s Rest”--The Fairies and the Mutton-birds--The Maero of the Woods--Mount Pleasant and its \_Tapu\_ 61

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**To what, where:** Rest Fairies

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Chapter VI. Hills of Faery: 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:pg73766:8:1
# text = Legends of the _Patu-paiarehe_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsula Hills--Mountains of Enchantment--“The Red Cloud’s Rest”--The Fairies and the Mutton-birds--The Maero of the Woods--Mount Pleasant and its _Tapu_ 61
1	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Patu	Patu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	paiarehe	paiarehe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Hills	Hill	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
26	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	Rest	Rest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	Mutton	Mutton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Maero	Maero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Pleasant	Pleasant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Tapu	Tapu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	52	punct	_	_
52	61	61	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
```

## 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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