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title: Fornander says that one set of legends gives the story of Laa’s spee… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Fornander says that one set of legends gives the story of Laa’s speedy return to Hawaii with Kila. Who acts: Fornander, one set, Laa. 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 38

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Fornander says that one set of legends gives the story of Laa’s speedy return to Hawaii with Kila.

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**Who acts:** Fornander, one set, Laa · **What happens:** say, give, return · **To what, where:** story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fornander, one set, Laa), 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:pg66357:10:38
# text = Fornander says that one set of legends gives the story of Laa’s speedy return to Hawaii with Kila.
1	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	speedy	speedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kila	Kila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fornander |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | present | one set of legends | the story of Laa's speedy return to Hawaii with Kila |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **return** |  | Laa |  |  |  |  | to Hawaii; with Kila | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl with=obl |

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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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