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title: The call to the sea was hereditary and with eagerness he grasped the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The call to the sea was hereditary and with eagerness he grasped the opportunity. Who acts: call, Kila. 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 27

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The call to the sea was hereditary and with eagerness he grasped the opportunity.

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**Who acts:** call, Kila · **What happens:** be, grasp · **To what, where:** opportunity

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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 (call, Kila), 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:pg66357:10:27
# text = The call to the sea was hereditary and with eagerness he grasped the opportunity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the call to the sea |  |  |  |  | hereditary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grasp** | past | Kila | the opportunity |  |  |  | with eagerness | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent opportunity=Experiencer with eagerness=Instrument |

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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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