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title: Among other groups he “fished up from the ocean” New Zealand and the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Among other groups he “fished up from the ocean” New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands with a magic hook. 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 82

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Among other groups he “fished up from the ocean” New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands with a magic hook.

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**Who acts:** Maui · **What happens:** fish up · **To what, where:** ocean

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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:pg66357:2:82
# text = Among other groups he “fished up from the ocean” New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands with a magic hook.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	fished	fish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fish up** *in a quote* | past | Maui |  |  | the ocean |  | among other groups; with a magic hook | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among group=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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