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title: It was always known that Laa would return to Tahiti, and yet many in… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was always known that Laa would return to Tahiti, and yet many inducements were placed before him to lead him to stay. Who acts: Laa, Tahiti. 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 52

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It was always known that Laa would return to Tahiti, and yet many inducements were placed before him to lead him to stay.

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**Who acts:** Laa, Tahiti · **What happens:** know, return, place, lead, stay · **To what, where:** decision, Tahiti, many inducements

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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 (Laa, Tahiti), 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:pg66357:10:52
# text = It was always known that Laa would return to Tahiti, and yet many inducements were placed before him to lead him to stay.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	inducements	inducement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | decision |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | would | Laa |  | Tahiti |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tahiti=Result |
| 3 | **place** | past · passive |  | many inducements |  |  | before Tahiti |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination |
| 4 | **lead** | to-infinitive |  | Tahiti |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Tahiti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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