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title: Here in the leaf-thatched hollows of Taungahara or the woven thicket… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Here in the leaf-thatched hollows of Taungahara or the woven thickets that blanket the precipice fronts of the Seven Sleepers still shall you have intimate glimpses of wild nature. Who acts: precipice fronts. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan,
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 28

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Here in the leaf-thatched hollows of Taungahara or the woven thickets that blanket the precipice fronts of the Seven Sleepers still shall you have intimate glimpses of wild nature.

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**Who acts:** precipice fronts · **What happens:** thatch, weave, have, glimpse · **To what, where:** intimate glimpses, wild nature

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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 (precipice fronts), 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:pg73766:9:28
# text = Here in the leaf-thatched hollows of Taungahara or the woven thickets that blanket the precipice fronts of the Seven Sleepers still shall you have intimate glimpses of wild nature.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Taungahara	Taungahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	det	_	_
15	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fronts	front	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	Sleepers	Sleeper	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
27	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	glimpses	glimpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | leaf *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | the precipice fronts of the Seven Sleepers | intimate glimpses of wild nature |  |  | still | you *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient |
| 5 | **glimpse** |  |  | wild nature |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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