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title: This was an especial offering to Laa, a reminder of the high esteem… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This was an especial offering to Laa, a reminder of the high esteem in which his foster father still held him, and a proof of the intense desire for him to visit his native land. Who acts: This, foster father. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 33

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This was an especial offering to Laa, a reminder of the high esteem in which his foster father still held him, and a proof of the intense desire for him to visit his native land.

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**Who acts:** This, foster father · **What happens:** be, hold, visit, remind, proof · **To what, where:** especial offering, Laa, Kila, high esteem, native land, intense desire

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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 (This, foster father), 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:pg66357:10:33
# text = This was an especial offering to Laa, a reminder of the high esteem in which his foster father still held him, and a proof of the intense desire for him to visit his native land.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	especial	especial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reminder	reminder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	esteem	esteem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a especial offering and a proof of the intense desire for Kila | Laa |  |  | a proof of the intense desire for Kila *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Kila's foster father | Kila |  | the high esteem | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | Kila's native land |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **remind** |  |  | the high esteem |  |  |  |  | nom reminder «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **proof** |  |  | the intense desire for Kila |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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