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title: The genealogy of this Raa family coincides very closely in extent wi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The genealogy of this Raa family coincides very closely in extent with the number of names given in the Hawaiian genealogies from the time of the visit of Laa from Tahiti to his uncle Moi-keha the Restless and his subsequent return to Tahiti. Who acts: genealogy, Moi. A sentence of «Hawaiian Histori
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 4

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The genealogy of this Raa family coincides very closely in extent with the number of names given in the Hawaiian genealogies from the time of the visit of Laa from Tahiti to his uncle Moi-keha the Restless and his subsequent return to Tahiti.

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**Who acts:** genealogy, Moi · **What happens:** coincide, give, visit, return · **To what, where:** extent, names, Hawaiian genealogies, Laa

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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 (genealogy, Moi), 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:pg66357:10:4
# text = The genealogy of this Raa family coincides very closely in extent with the number of names given in the Hawaiian genealogies from the time of the visit of Laa from Tahiti to his uncle Moi-keha the Restless and his subsequent return to Tahiti.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	genealogy	genealogy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	Raa	Raa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	coincides	coincide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
35	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	35	dep	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Restless	Restless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coincide** | present | the genealogy of this Raa family |  |  | extent |  | with the number of names; to Tahiti's uncle; closely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with number=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | names *not said here* |  | the Hawaiian genealogies | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **visit** |  |  | Laa from Tahiti |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **return** |  | Moi |  |  |  |  | to Tahiti | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=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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