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title: Maui’s wife made war upon the gods, and killed as many as she could… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Maui’s wife made war upon the gods, and killed as many as she could to avenge her husband’s death. Who acts: wife, husband. 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 51

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Maui’s wife made war upon the gods, and killed as many as she could to avenge her husband’s death.

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**Who acts:** wife, husband · **What happens:** make, kill, avenge, die · **To what, where:** war, many, 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 (wife, husband), 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:pg66357:3:51
# text = Maui’s wife made war upon the gods, and killed as many as she could to avenge her husband’s death.
1	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Maui's wife | war |  |  |  | upon the gods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product |
| 2 | **kill** | past | Maui's wife *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 3 | **avenge** | could | wife | wife's husband's death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** |  | wife's husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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