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title: The Port Range and the Banks Peninsula system of mountains are indee… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Port Range and the Banks Peninsula system of mountains are indeed the most remarkable heights in the whole of the South Island, not excepting the snowy Alps; there is nothing like them outside the northern volcanic regions, and in some aspects they carry a greater scientific and scenic value tha
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 5

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The Port Range and the Banks Peninsula system of mountains are indeed the most remarkable heights in the whole of the South Island, not excepting the snowy Alps; there is nothing like them outside the northern volcanic regions, and in some aspects they carry a greater scientific and scenic value than even the crater-cones around the city of Auckland.

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**Who acts:** Port Range, remarkable heights, nothing, Alps · **What happens:** be, not except, carry · **To what, where:** remarkable heights, whole South Island, snowy Alps, greater scientific value, aspects

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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 (Port Range, remarkable heights, nothing, Alps), 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:pg73766:9:5
# text = The Port Range and the Banks Peninsula system of mountains are indeed the most remarkable heights in the whole of the South Island, not excepting the snowy Alps; there is nothing like them outside the northern volcanic regions, and in some aspects they carry a greater scientific and scenic value than even the crater-cones around the city of Auckland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Port	Port	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Range	Range	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Banks	Banks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	_
36	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	aspects	aspect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
49	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	amod	_	_
50	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	scenic	scenic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
53	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
54	than	than	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
55	even	even	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
57	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
60	around	around	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Port Range and the Peninsula system of mountains | the remarkable heights |  | the whole South Island |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **except** | gerund | the remarkable heights *not said here* | the snowy Alps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | nothing like Alps outside the northern volcanic regions |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | present | Alps *= alp* | a greater scientific value |  | some aspects |  | than the crater cones around the city of Auckland | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent value=Value in aspect=Location |

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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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