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title: But in the story of Laa-mai-Kahiki [2] the stories and genealogies o… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the story of Laa-mai-Kahiki [2] the stories and genealogies of two widely separated groups of Pacific islands produce a certain degree of apparent accuracy. Who acts: stories. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 2

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But in the story of Laa-mai-Kahiki \[2\] the stories and genealogies of two widely separated groups of Pacific islands produce a certain degree of apparent accuracy.

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**Who acts:** stories · **What happens:** separate, produce · **To what, where:** certain degree, story

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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 (stories), 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:pg66357:10:2
# text = But in the story of Laa-mai-Kahiki [2] the stories and genealogies of two widely separated groups of Pacific islands produce a certain degree of apparent accuracy.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	mai	mai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Kahiki	Kahiki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	produce	produce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **produce** | present | the stories of two separated groups of Pacific islands and genealogies | a certain degree of apparent accuracy |  | the story of Laa and Kahiki |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Result |

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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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