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title: With these same uncles he sailed the many hundred miles to Tahiti. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: With these same uncles he sailed the many hundred miles to Tahiti. Who acts: manhood. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 16

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With these same uncles he sailed the many hundred miles to Tahiti.

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**Who acts:** manhood · **What happens:** sail · **To what, where:** many hundred miles, Tahiti

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manhood), 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:pg66357:10:16
# text = With these same uncles he sailed the many hundred miles to Tahiti.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | manhood | the many hundred miles |  | Tahiti |  | with this same uncles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mile=Theme to tahiti=Trajectory |

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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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