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title: Thus Maui raised the sky, lassoed the sun, found fire and made the e… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus Maui raised the sky, lassoed the sun, found fire and made the earth habitable for man. 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 85

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Thus Maui raised the sky, lassoed the sun, found fire and made the earth habitable for man.

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**Who acts:** Maui · **What happens:** raise, lasso, find, make · **To what, where:** sky, sun, fire, earth

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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:pg66357:2:85
# text = Thus Maui raised the sky, lassoed the sun, found fire and made the earth habitable for man.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lassoed	lasso	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	habitable	habitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | Maui | the sky |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Theme |
| 2 | **lasso** | past | Maui *not said here* | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | fire |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | the earth |  |  |  | habitable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset earth=Product |

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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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