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title: He turned to come back again into life when suddenly a little bird l… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned to come back again into life when suddenly a little bird laughed in a clear, shrill tone and Great Hine, through whose mouth Maui was passing, awoke. Who acts: Maui, little bird. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 44

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He turned to come back again into life when suddenly a little bird laughed in a clear, shrill tone and Great Hine, through whose mouth Maui was passing, awoke.

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**Who acts:** Maui, little bird · **What happens:** turn, come back, laugh, pass, awake · **To what, where:** life, little bird

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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, little bird), 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:pg66357:3:44
# text = He turned to come back again into life when suddenly a little bird laughed in a clear, shrill tone and Great Hine, through whose mouth Maui was passing, awoke.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Hine	Hine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
28	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Maui |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | to-infinitive | Maui *not said here* |  |  | life | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into life=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **laugh** | participle |  | a little bird *not said here* |  |  |  | through mouth; in a clear shrill tone and Great Hine | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tone=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | past · progressive | a little bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **awake** | past | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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