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title: Max Müller calls attention to the use of the word Av-iki by both Bra… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Max Müller calls attention to the use of the word Av-iki by both Brahmins and Buddhists as the name of their “hades.” Who acts: Max. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 51

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Max Müller calls attention to the use of the word Av-iki by both Brahmins and Buddhists as the name of their “hades.”

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**Who acts:** Max · **What happens:** call, use, name · **To what, where:** attention, use, word, hades · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Max), 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:pg66357:6:51
# text = Max Müller calls attention to the use of the word Av-iki by both Brahmins and Buddhists as the name of their “hades.”
1	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Müller	Müller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Av	Av	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	Brahmins	brahmin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	hades	hade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Max | attention | the use of the word |  |  | by both Brahmins and Buddhists; as the name of names's hades | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to use=Recipient |
| 2 | **use** |  |  | the word |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | names's hades |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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