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title: He put off his clothing and prepared to pass through the ordeal of g… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He put off his clothing and prepared to pass through the ordeal of going to the hidden source of life, tear it out of the body of its guardian and carry it back with him to mankind. Who acts: Maui, ordeal. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, wit
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 39

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He put off his clothing and prepared to pass through the ordeal of going to the hidden source of life, tear it out of the body of its guardian and carry it back with him to mankind.

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**Who acts:** Maui, ordeal · **What happens:** put off, pass, go, tear, carry back · **To what, where:** clothing, ordeal, hidden source, body, mankind

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui, ordeal), 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:pg66357:3:39
# text = He put off his clothing and prepared to pass through the ordeal of going to the hidden source of life, tear it out of the body of its guardian and carry it back with him to mankind.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put off** | past | Maui | Maui's clothing |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clothing=Goal |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Maui *not said here* |  |  | the ordeal |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ordeal=Location |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | the ordeal *not said here* |  |  | the hidden source of life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to source=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tear** | infinitive | Maui *not said here* | clothing |  | the body of body's guardian |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **carry back** | infinitive | Maui *not said here* | clothing |  | mankind |  | with Maui | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mankind=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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