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title: Judge Fornander suggests that quite possibly these were Indians from… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Judge Fornander suggests that quite possibly these were Indians from the American coast. Who acts: you, Fornander, that. 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 34

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Judge Fornander suggests that quite possibly these were Indians from the American coast.

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**Who acts:** you, Fornander, that · **What happens:** judge, suggest, be · **To what, where:** Indians, American coast

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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 (you, Fornander, that), 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:pg66357:11:34
# text = Judge Fornander suggests that quite possibly these were Indians from the American coast.
1	Judge	judge	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Fornander |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | this Indians |  | the American coast |  | possibly *property* | tree rules |

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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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