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title: Indeed, that strange hollow in the hills might have made fit cradle… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, that strange hollow in the hills might have made fit cradle for a Finn MacCoul. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Story of the Rocks., 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 Story of the Rocks., sentence 19

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Indeed, that strange hollow in the hills might have made fit cradle for a Finn MacCoul.

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**What happens:** make · **To what, where:** hills

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Story of the Rocks.. 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:pg73766:9:19
# text = Indeed, that strange hollow in the hills might have made fit cradle for a Finn MacCoul.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	MacCoul	MacCoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | **make** | might · perfect · passive |  | the hills |  |  |  | fit cradle *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary cradle=Product for maccoul=Asset |

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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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