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title: After a long time Maui came to a woman and said: “Give me a drink fr… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After a long time Maui came to a woman and said: “Give me a drink from your gourd calabash and I will push the heavens higher.” 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 31

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After a long time Maui came to a woman and said: “Give me a drink from your gourd calabash and I will push the heavens higher.”

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**Who acts:** Maui · **What happens:** come, say, give, push · **To what, where:** drink, Maui, gourd calabash, heavens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg66357:2:31
# text = After a long time Maui came to a woman and said: “Give me a drink from your gourd calabash and I will push the heavens higher.”
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	calabash	calabash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Maui |  |  |  | time | to a woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a drink | Maui | your gourd calabash |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme |
| 4 | **push** *in a quote* | future | Maui | the heavens |  |  |  | high *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=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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