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title: Children whose names became noted in Hawaiian legends grew to manhoo… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Children whose names became noted in Hawaiian legends grew to manhood and womanhood around him. Who acts: Hawaiian legends, Children. 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 21

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Children whose names became noted in Hawaiian legends grew to manhood and womanhood around him.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian legends, Children · **What happens:** note, grow, name · **To what, where:** Children

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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 (Hawaiian legends, Children), 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:pg66357:10:21
# text = Children whose names became noted in Hawaiian legends grew to manhood and womanhood around him.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | past · passive |  | Children  Children  Children's names's names |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Hawaiian legends |  |  |  |  | to manhood and womanhood around manhood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  | Children  Children  names's names |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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