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title: Thus, according to the New Zealand story related by Sir George Grey,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, according to the New Zealand story related by Sir George Grey, Maui was received in his home. 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 25

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Thus, according to the New Zealand story related by Sir George Grey, Maui was received in his home.

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**What happens:** accord, relate, receive · **To what, where:** Zealand story, home

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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: 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:pg66357:2:25
# text = Thus, according to the New Zealand story related by Sir George Grey, Maui was received in his home.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
7	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
13	Grey	Grey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **relate** | participle |  | the Zealand story *not said here* |  |  |  | George  Sir *obl:agent* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | past · passive |  | the Zealand story |  | George's home |  | thus *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in home=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:** «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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