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title: With all the alterations which man’s hand may make in the reserves a… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: With all the alterations which man’s hand may make in the reserves and along the public tracks, however, the monumental rock-beauty will remain the great and peculiar feature of the hills, their most wonderful and unalterable glory. Who acts: hand, monumental rock beauty. A sentence of «Maori folk-t
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 4

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With all the alterations which man’s hand may make in the reserves and along the public tracks, however, the monumental rock-beauty will remain the great and peculiar feature of the hills, their most wonderful and unalterable glory.

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**Who acts:** hand, monumental rock beauty · **What happens:** make, remain, feature · **To what, where:** reserves, great feature, hills

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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 (hand, monumental rock beauty), 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:pg73766:9:4
# text = With all the alterations which man’s hand may make in the reserves and along the public tracks, however, the monumental rock-beauty will remain the great and peculiar feature of the hills, their most wonderful and unalterable glory.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	alterations	alteration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	however	however	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	monumental	monumental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	40	advmod	_	_
40	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	unalterable	unalterable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | may | which man's hand |  |  | the reserves and the public tracks |  | with all alterations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **remain** | future | the monumental rock beauty | the great feature of the hills |  |  |  | however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **feature** |  |  | the hills |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition 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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