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title: Deep down in these twisting gullies below the straight cut harbour-f… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep down in these twisting gullies below the straight cut harbour-facing cliffs, there lingers still a certain quality of primitiveness and a suggestion of the ancient adventure; an atmosphere still in keeping with the legendry of these Hills. Who acts: atmosphere, ancient adventure. A sentence of 
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 27

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Deep down in these twisting gullies below the straight cut harbour-facing cliffs, there lingers still a certain quality of primitiveness and a suggestion of the ancient adventure; an atmosphere still in keeping with the legendry of these Hills.

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**Who acts:** atmosphere, ancient adventure · **What happens:** twist, face, keep, suggest

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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 (atmosphere, ancient adventure), 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:pg73766:9:27
# text = Deep down in these twisting gullies below the straight cut harbour-facing cliffs, there lingers still a certain quality of primitiveness and a suggestion of the ancient adventure; an atmosphere still in keeping with the legendry of these Hills.
1	Deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	gullies	gully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	below	below	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
17	lingers	linger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	primitiveness	primitiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	legendry	legendry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	Hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **face** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | harbour *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | a atmosphere *not said here* |  |  |  | still | with the legendry of this Hills | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suggest** |  | the ancient adventure |  |  |  |  |  | nom suggestion «cognition 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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