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title: The twisting process was resumed—and repeated until the mud-hen was… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The twisting process was resumed—and repeated until the mud-hen was almost dead—and Maui had tried tree after tree. Who acts: mud hen. 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 76

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The twisting process was resumed—and repeated until the mud-hen was almost dead—and Maui had tried tree after tree.

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**Who acts:** mud hen · **What happens:** resume, repeat, be, try · **To what, where:** twisting process, Maui

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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 (mud hen), 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:pg66357:2:76
# text = The twisting process was resumed—and repeated until the mud-hen was almost dead—and Maui had tried tree after tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	twisting	twisting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	resumed	resume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resume** | past · passive |  | the twisting process |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **repeat** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the mud hen |  |  |  |  | almost, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | past · perfect · passive |  | Maui |  |  | after tree |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer tree=Result |

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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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