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title: One of the old native poets of New Zealand in chanting the story to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the old native poets of New Zealand in chanting the story to Mr. White said: “But though Maui was killed his offspring survived. Who acts: offspring. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 52

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One of the old native poets of New Zealand in chanting the story to Mr. White said: “But though Maui was killed his offspring survived.

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**Who acts:** offspring · **What happens:** chant, say, kill, survive · **To what, where:** story, White, Maui · **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 (offspring), 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:pg66357:3:52
# text = One of the old native poets of New Zealand in chanting the story to Mr. White said: “But though Maui was killed his offspring survived.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	ccomp	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chant** | gerund |  | the story | White  Mr. |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to white=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | One of the old native poets of New Zealand *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Maui |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **survive** *in a quote* | past | Maui's offspring |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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