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title: Olopana and Laa remained in the “wide spreading” valley under the sh… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Olopana and Laa remained in the “wide spreading” valley under the shadow of what the Hawaiians called the mountain Kapa-ahu the Tapa Cloak in far away Tahiti. Who acts: Olopana, Hawaiians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, with its dependency tree and 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 8

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Olopana and Laa remained in the “wide spreading” valley under the shadow of what the Hawaiians called the mountain Kapa-ahu the Tapa Cloak in far away Tahiti.

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**Who acts:** Olopana, Hawaiians · **What happens:** remain, call · **To what, where:** spreading valley, mountain · **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 (Olopana, Hawaiians), 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:pg66357:10:8
# text = Olopana and Laa remained in the “wide spreading” valley under the shadow of what the Hawaiians called the mountain Kapa-ahu the Tapa Cloak in far away Tahiti.
1	Olopana	Olopana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	Kapa	Kapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ahu	ahu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	dep	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Tapa	Tapa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Olopana and Laa |  |  | the spreading valley |  | under the shadow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Hawaiians | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mountain=Recipient |

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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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