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title: Up on the tussock-swarded mountains of the hawk and deep in the sudd… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Up on the tussock-swarded mountains of the hawk and deep in the sudden valleys still may you, though so near to the City, breathe the mind-refreshing fragrance of the grand out-of-doors, hold healthy commune with Who acts: swarded mountains. A sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterb
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 29

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Up on the tussock-swarded mountains of the hawk and deep in the sudden valleys still may you, though so near to the City, breathe the mind-refreshing fragrance of the grand out-of-doors, hold healthy commune with

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**Who acts:** swarded mountains · **What happens:** sward, breathe, refresh, hold · **To what, where:** refreshing fragrance, healthy commune

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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 (swarded mountains), 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:pg73766:9:29
# text = Up on the tussock-swarded mountains of the hawk and deep in the sudden valleys still may you, though so near to the City, breathe the mind-refreshing fragrance of the grand out-of-doors, hold healthy commune with
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	tussock	tussock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	swarded	sward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
36	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
44	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	commune	commune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sward** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tussock *compound* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe** | may | the swarded mountains of the hawk | the refreshing fragrance of the grand doors |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme |
| 3 | **refresh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mind *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive | the swarded mountains of the hawk *not said here* | healthy commune |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commune=Theme |

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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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