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title: Maui’s brothers took the dismembered body and buried it in a cave ca… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Maui’s brothers took the dismembered body and buried it in a cave called Te-ana-i-hana. Who acts: brothers. 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 49

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Maui’s brothers took the dismembered body and buried it in a cave called Te-ana-i-hana.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** take, dismember, bury, call · **To what, where:** dismembered body, body, cave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brothers), 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:pg66357:3:49
# text = Maui’s brothers took the dismembered body and buried it in a cave called Te-ana-i-hana.
1	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dismembered	dismember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	Te	Te	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ana	ana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hana	hana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Maui's brothers | the dismembered body |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 2 | **dismember** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bury** | past | Maui's brothers *not said here* | body |  | a cave |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cave=Destination |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a cave *not said here* |  |  |  | Te *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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