Complex sentence: The very first men to die in this battle was standing behind a banana tree, the tale said that when Matawalu swings his'wau' club to kill him, the club went through cutoff the banana tree before chopping off the head of the guard.
Split into simpler sentences: The very first man to die in this battle was standing behind a banana tree. It is said that when Matawalu swung his'wau' club to kill him, the club cut through the banana tree before chopping off the head of the guard.