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title: “All the still-eyed Soul that broods In wide wind-whispering solitud… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: “All the still-eyed Soul that broods In wide wind-whispering solitudes-- Each cloud chase chequering hill and plain-- Moon-shadows--sunny silences-- Lone mists on fire in glens profound-- Old half-lit trunks of twisted trees And stealthy gleams in gloomy woods.” Who acts: eyed Soul, Lone. A sentence
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 30

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“All the still-eyed Soul that broods In wide wind-whispering solitudes-- Each cloud chase chequering hill and plain-- Moon-shadows--sunny silences-- Lone mists on fire in glens profound-- Old half-lit trunks of twisted trees And stealthy gleams in gloomy woods.”

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**Who acts:** eyed Soul, Lone · **What happens:** brood, whisper, chase, chequer, mist · **To what, where:** wide whispering solitudes, Moon shadows, hill, fire

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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 (eyed Soul, Lone), 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:pg73766:9:30
# text = “All the still-eyed Soul that broods In wide wind-whispering solitudes-- Each cloud chase chequering hill and plain-- Moon-shadows--sunny silences-- Lone mists on fire in glens profound-- Old half-lit trunks of twisted trees And stealthy gleams in gloomy woods.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	broods	brood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	solitudes	solitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	chequering	chequer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	silences	silence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	Lone	Lone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	mists	mist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	glens	glen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	compound	_	_
38	profound	profound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
41	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	appos	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	stealthy	stealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	gleams	gleam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brood** *in a quote* | present | all eyed Soul and each cloud |  |  | wide whispering solitudes |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | wind *compound* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chase** *in a quote* | present | all eyed Soul and each cloud | Moon shadows and sunny silences |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **chequer** *in a quote* | gerund | all eyed Soul and each cloud *not said here* | hill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mist** *in a quote* | present | Lone |  |  | fire |  | in glens profound; in gloomy woods | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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