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title: Maui Seeking Immortality 19 III. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Maui Seeking Immortality 19 III. Who acts: Maui. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 26

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Maui Seeking Immortality 19 III.

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**Who acts:** Maui · **What happens:** seek · **To what, where:** Immortality, Maui

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui), 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:pg66357:1:26
# text = Maui Seeking Immortality 19 III.
1	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	Immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
5	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | gerund | Maui *not said here* | Immortality |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immortality=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:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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