🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 62

And the _Patu-paiarehe_ men appear often to have made themselves agreeable to the _wahine_ Maori, for stories are told of women being taken as wives by the fairy chiefs, and of girls from the Maori villages wandering away into the woods to meet their fairy lovers.

Who acts: Patu paiarehe, fairy chiefs, Maori villages · What happens: appear, make, tell, take, wonder away, meet · To what, where: men, stories, woods, fairy lovers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patu paiarehe, fairy chiefs, Maori villages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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