--- title: From this home Maui crossed to the island Maui, climbed a great moun… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: From this home Maui crossed to the island Maui, climbed a great mountain, threw ropes made from fibres of plants around the sun’s legs, pulled off many and then compelled the swift traveller of the heavens to go slowly on its way that men might have longer and better days. Who acts: Maui, way. 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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, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:2:45 # text = From this home Maui crossed to the island Maui, climbed a great mountain, threw ropes made from fibres of plants around the sun’s legs, pulled off many and then compelled the swift traveller of the heavens to go slowly on its way that men might have longer and better days. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Maui Maui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 Maui Maui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 around around ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 compelled compel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 43 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 48 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 49 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl:relcl _ _ 51 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 54 amod _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 51 conj _ _ 54 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | past | Maui | | | this home | | to the island | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location to island=Destination | | 2 | **climb** | past | | a great mountain | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location mountain=Theme | | 3 | **throw** | past | | ropes | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | | 4 | **make** | participle | | ropes *not said here* | | fibres of plants around the sun's legs | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from fibre=Material | | 5 | **pull off** | participle | | many | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Eventuality | | 6 | **compel** | past | | the swift traveller of the heavens | | | then | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Patient | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | traveller's way | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | | 8 | **have** | might | traveller's way | | | | day | men *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. 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