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title: From the sea Maui and his brothers saw fire burning on a mountain si… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From the sea Maui and his brothers saw fire burning on a mountain side but it was always put entirely out when they hastened to the spot. Who acts: Maui, fire, sides. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 54

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From the sea Maui and his brothers saw fire burning on a mountain side but it was always put entirely out when they hastened to the spot.

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**Who acts:** Maui, fire, sides · **What happens:** see, burn, put out, hasten · **To what, where:** fire, sea, mountain side, spot

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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, fire, sides), 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:pg66357:2:54
# text = From the sea Maui and his brothers saw fire burning on a mountain side but it was always put entirely out when they hastened to the spot.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Maui and Maui's brothers | fire |  | the sea |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  | a mountain side |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 3 | **put out** | past · passive |  | fire |  |  |  | always *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 4 | **hasten** | past | sides *= side* |  |  | the spot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |

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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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