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title: The really remarkable group of legends which cluster around Maui is… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The really remarkable group of legends which cluster around Maui is well concluded by the story of his unselfish and heroic battle with death. Who acts: story, Maui. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 4

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The really remarkable group of legends which cluster around Maui is well concluded by the story of his unselfish and heroic battle with death.

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**Who acts:** story, Maui · **What happens:** conclude, battle · **To what, where:** remarkable group

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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 (story, 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:pg66357:3:4
# text = The really remarkable group of legends which cluster around Maui is well concluded by the story of his unselfish and heroic battle with death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	cluster	cluster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	unselfish	unselfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | present · passive | the story of Maui's unselfish battle with death | the remarkable group of legends |  |  |  | well *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **battle** |  | Maui |  |  |  |  | with death | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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