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title: The Summit Road has made city people free of the grandest hilltop pl… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Summit Road has made city people free of the grandest hilltop pleasure place that any New Zealand city possesses within easy distance of its streets, and the worth of this mountain track, so easily accessible and commanding so noble a look-out over sea and plains and Alps, will increase in propo
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 2

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The Summit Road has made city people free of the grandest hilltop pleasure place that any New Zealand city possesses within easy distance of its streets, and the worth of this mountain track, so easily accessible and commanding so noble a look-out over sea and plains and Alps, will increase in proportion to the growth of the Christchurch population.

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**Who acts:** people, city, Zealand city, Christchurch population · **What happens:** make, people, possess, command, increase, grow · **To what, where:** Summit Road, look out, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (people, city, Zealand city, Christchurch population), 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:pg73766:9:2
# text = The Summit Road has made city people free of the grandest hilltop pleasure place that any New Zealand city possesses within easy distance of its streets, and the worth of this mountain track, so easily accessible and commanding so noble a look-out over sea and plains and Alps, will increase in proportion to the growth of the Christchurch population.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Summit	Summit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	grandest	grand	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
12	hilltop	hilltop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
17	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	accessible	accessible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	commanding	command	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	Alps	alp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	Christchurch	Christchurch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | people | the Summit Road |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **people** |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | present | any Zealand city |  |  |  |  | within easy distance of place's streets and the worth of this mountain track | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **command** | gerund | any Zealand city *not said here* | a look out |  | sea and plains and Alps |  | noble *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent out=Theme over sea=Eventuality |
| 5 | **increase** | future | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the growth of the Christchurch population *result*; in proportion | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient in proportion=Attribute to growth=Result |
| 6 | **grow** |  | the Christchurch population |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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