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title: He found the white man’s home, where the “land was ‘within,’” i.e.,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He found the white man’s home, where the “land was ‘within,’” i.e., lying to the east, with the sun “outside,” i.e., westward over the waters, most of the day. Who acts: Ku, home. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 104

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He found the white man’s home, where the “land was ‘within,’” i.e., lying to the east, with the sun “outside,” i.e., westward over the waters, most of the day.

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**Who acts:** Ku, home · **What happens:** find, lie · **To what, where:** waters · **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 (Ku, home), 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:pg66357:11:104
# text = He found the white man’s home, where the “land was ‘within,’” i.e., lying to the east, with the sun “outside,” i.e., westward over the waters, most of the day.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	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	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
33	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	28	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Ku |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the white man's home |  |  | the waters  most of the day |  | to the east; with the sun; i.e. *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=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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