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title: For three or four hundred years no voyagers had found their way to f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: For three or four hundred years no voyagers had found their way to foreign lands. 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 74

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For three or four hundred years no voyagers had found their way to foreign lands.

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**What happens:** find · **To what, where:** voyagers

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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: 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:pg66357:11:74
# text = For three or four hundred years no voyagers had found their way to foreign lands.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | no voyagers |  |  | year | to foreign lands; voyagers's way *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme way=Attribute |

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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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