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title: It is said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name “Thengki”—“th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name “Thengki”—“the sweet-scented nail.” Who acts: Chinese. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 1

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It is said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name “Thengki”—“the sweet-scented nail.”

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**Who acts:** Chinese · **What happens:** say, give, scent · **To what, where:** It, name, clove · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chinese), 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:pg66357:11:1
# text = It is said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name “Thengki”—“the sweet-scented nail.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	clove	clove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Thengki	Thengki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  | the scented nail *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Chinese | the name | the clove |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to clove=Recipient |
| 3 | **scent** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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