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title: It was from her that Maui the demi-god was represented by many legen… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was from her that Maui the demi-god was represented by many legends as procuring fire for mankind. Who acts: guardian, many legends. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 51

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It was from her that Maui the demi-god was represented by many legends as procuring fire for mankind.

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**Who acts:** guardian, many legends · **What happens:** be, represent, procure · **To what, where:** Mahuike, fire

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian, many legends), 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:pg66516:13:51
# text = It was from her that Maui the demi-god was represented by many legends as procuring fire for mankind.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	procuring	procure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | guardian |  |  |  |  | from Mahuike | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | past · passive | many legends | Mahuike |  |  |  | Maui *nsubj:pass*; the demi god *nsubj:pass* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 3 | **procure** | gerund | many legends *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | for mankind | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Theme for mankind=Beneficiary |

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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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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