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title: The Society Islands have the story of Raa who became a ruler and est… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Society Islands have the story of Raa who became a ruler and established a line of rulers which has continued to the present day. Who acts: Society Islands, story. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 3

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The Society Islands have the story of Raa who became a ruler and established a line of rulers which has continued to the present day.

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**Who acts:** Society Islands, story · **What happens:** have, become, establish, continue · **To what, where:** story, ruler, line, rulers

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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 (Society Islands, story), 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:pg66357:10:3
# text = The Society Islands have the story of Raa who became a ruler and established a line of rulers which has continued to the present day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Raa	Raa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Society Islands | the story of Raa |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | the story of Raa | a ruler |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **establish** | past | the story of Raa *not said here* | a line of rulers |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 4 | **continue** | present · perfect · passive |  | rulers |  |  | day |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |

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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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