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title: The entire “mele,” or song, stretches out to about six hundred lines. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The entire “mele,” or song, stretches out to about six hundred lines. Who acts: entire mele. 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 76

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The entire “mele,” or song, stretches out to about six hundred lines.

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**Who acts:** entire mele · **What happens:** stretch out · **To what, where:** hundred lines

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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 (entire mele), 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:pg66357:11:76
# text = The entire “mele,” or song, stretches out to about six hundred lines.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	mele	mele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | present | the entire mele or song |  |  | hundred lines |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to line=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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