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title: Among the really ancient ancestors of the Hawaiian chiefs, Maui is o… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the really ancient ancestors of the Hawaiian chiefs, Maui is one of the most interesting. Who acts: Maui. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 1

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Among the really ancient ancestors of the Hawaiian chiefs, Maui is one of the most interesting.

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**Who acts:** Maui · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. 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:pg66357:2:1
# text = Among the really ancient ancestors of the Hawaiian chiefs, Maui is one of the most interesting.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Maui | one |  |  |  | of the interesting | tree rules |

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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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