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title: Through all the succeeding years the name kept the story of the wrec… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Through all the succeeding years the name kept the story of the wrecked white chiefs before the Hawaiian people. Who acts: name. 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 20

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Through all the succeeding years the name kept the story of the wrecked white chiefs before the Hawaiian people.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** succeed, keep, wreck · **To what, where:** story

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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 (name), 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:pg66357:11:20
# text = Through all the succeeding years the name kept the story of the wrecked white chiefs before the Hawaiian people.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the name | the story of the wrecked white chiefs |  |  | before the Hawaiian people; year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent story=Theme before people=Location |
| 3 | **wreck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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