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title: By W. D. WESTERVELT Author of “Maui the Demi-God of Polynesia”; “Leg… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: By W. D. WESTERVELT Author of “Maui the Demi-God of Polynesia”; “Legends of Old Honolulu”; “Hawaiian Gods and Ghosts”; “Around the Poi-bowl”; “Hawaiian Volcanoes,” etc. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 2

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By W. D. WESTERVELT Author of “Maui the Demi-God of Polynesia”; “Legends of Old Honolulu”; “Hawaiian Gods and Ghosts”; “Around the Poi-bowl”; “Hawaiian Volcanoes,” etc.

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. 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:pg66357:1:2
# text = By W. D. WESTERVELT Author of “Maui the Demi-God of Polynesia”; “Legends of Old Honolulu”; “Hawaiian Gods and Ghosts”; “Around the Poi-bowl”; “Hawaiian Volcanoes,” etc.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	WESTERVELT	WESTERVELT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Author	Author	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Demi	Demi	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	Poi	Poi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
44	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
```

## 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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