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title: From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legisla… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume. Who acts: this. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 7

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From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** fable, be, tell · **To what, where:** outline, stories, present volume, mist · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (this), 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:pg66357:1:7
# text = From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fabled	fable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	legislature	legislature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	outline	outline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fable** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | the outline |  |  |  | of the stories | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the stories *not said here* |  | the present volume |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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