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title: “If Maui had not died he could have restored to life all who had gon… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “If Maui had not died he could have restored to life all who had gone before him, and thus succeeded in destroying death.” Who acts: Maui, all. 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 48

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“If Maui had not died he could have restored to life all who had gone before him, and thus succeeded in destroying death.”

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**Who acts:** Maui, all · **What happens:** not die, restore, go, succeed, destroy · **To what, where:** life, death

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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, all), 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:pg66357:3:48
# text = “If Maui had not died he could have restored to life all who had gone before him, and thus succeeded in destroying death.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Maui |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **restore** *in a quote* | could · perfect | Maui |  | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past · perfect | all |  |  |  | before Maui | life *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 4 | **succeed** *in a quote* | past | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **destroy** *in a quote* | gerund | Maui *not said here* | death |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient |

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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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