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title: The ancient Hawaiian chants recorded the names of the three sons of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The ancient Hawaiian chants recorded the names of the three sons of Laa thus: Who acts: ancient Hawaiian chants. 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 54

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The ancient Hawaiian chants recorded the names of the three sons of Laa thus:

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**Who acts:** ancient Hawaiian chants · **What happens:** record, name · **To what, where:** names, three sons

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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 (ancient Hawaiian chants), 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:pg66357:10:54
# text = The ancient Hawaiian chants recorded the names of the three sons of Laa thus:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chants	chant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	recorded	record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past | the ancient Hawaiian chants | the names of the three sons of Laa |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | the three sons of Laa |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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