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title: There are evident references to this group in the legends of the Pol… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There are evident references to this group in the legends of the Polynesians in other Pacific islands. Who acts: evident references. 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 54

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There are evident references to this group in the legends of the Polynesians in other Pacific islands.

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**Who acts:** evident references · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** legends

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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 (evident references), 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:pg66357:11:54
# text = There are evident references to this group in the legends of the Polynesians in other Pacific islands.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | evident references |  |  | the legends of the Polynesians in other Pacific islands; there |  | to this group | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in legend=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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