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title: There was the general feeling that this powerful chief, who would so… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There was the general feeling that this powerful chief, who would soon return to Raiatea, must leave descendants among the Hawaiians. Who acts: general feeling, powerful chief. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 47

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There was the general feeling that this powerful chief, who would soon return to Raiatea, must leave descendants among the Hawaiians.

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**Who acts:** general feeling, powerful chief · **What happens:** be, return, leave · **To what, where:** Raiatea, descendants, Hawaiians

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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 (general feeling, powerful chief), 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:pg66357:10:47
# text = There was the general feeling that this powerful chief, who would soon return to Raiatea, must leave descendants among the Hawaiians.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Raiatea	Raiatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
20	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the general feeling |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | would | this powerful chief |  | Raiatea |  |  | soon *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to raiatea=Result |
| 3 | **leave** | must | this powerful chief | descendants |  | the Hawaiians |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent descendant=Theme among hawaiian=Location |

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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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