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title: —Maori Death Chant. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: —Maori Death Chant. 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 56

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—Maori Death Chant.

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**To what, where:** Maori Death Chant

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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: 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:pg66357:3:56
# text = —Maori Death Chant.
1	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Maori	maori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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