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title: Thus Maui entered the gates of death, but was unable to return, and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus Maui entered the gates of death, but was unable to return, and death has ever since been victor over rebellious men. Who acts: Maui, death. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 46

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Thus Maui entered the gates of death, but was unable to return, and death has ever since been victor over rebellious men.

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**Who acts:** Maui, death · **What happens:** enter, be, return, have · **To what, where:** gates

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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, death), 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:pg66357:3:46
# text = Thus Maui entered the gates of death, but was unable to return, and death has ever since been victor over rebellious men.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	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	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
19	since	since	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	rebellious	rebellious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Maui | the gates of death |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | death |  |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  | since victor | over rebellious men | tree rules |

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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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