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title: a = a in father. e = e in they. i = i in pin. o = o in hold. u = oo… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: a = a in father. e = e in they. i = i in pin. o = o in hold. u = oo in spoon. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 21

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a = a in father. e = e in they. i = i in pin. o = o in hold. u = oo in spoon.

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**To what, where:** pin

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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:pg66357:1:21
# text = a = a in father. e = e in they. i = i in pin. o = o in hold. u = oo in spoon.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
7	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	punct	_	_
9	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
13	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	punct	_	_
15	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
19	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	punct	_	_
21	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
25	u	u	NOUN	NN	_	23	conj	_	_
26	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	29	punct	_	_
27	oo	oo	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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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