🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”, sentence 50

The place lacks the softness of moss and fern underfoot to which we are accustomed in the real bush; nevertheless it has something of the atmosphere of the olden forest wild; grateful bush scents are in our nostrils, the leaf-covering is close, though the trees are not tall, and the twisting character of growth and the matting of creepers help to make compact the tentage of green.

Who acts: place, grateful bush scents, leaf covering, trees, twisting character · What happens: lack, accustom, have, be, not be, twist · To what, where: softness, we, real bush, something, nostrils, tentage

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, “the Crest of the Rainbow.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, grateful bush scents, leaf covering, trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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