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title: It is an interesting poem filled with graphic references to people a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is an interesting poem filled with graphic references to people and places, to winds and seas, and to birds and fishes. Who acts: song. 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 77

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It is an interesting poem filled with graphic references to people and places, to winds and seas, and to birds and fishes.

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**Who acts:** song · **What happens:** be, fill · **To what, where:** interesting poem

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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 (song), 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:pg66357:11:77
# text = It is an interesting poem filled with graphic references to people and places, to winds and seas, and to birds and fishes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	graphic	graphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | song | a interesting poem |  |  |  | winds and seas *appos*; birds and fishes *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a interesting poem *not said here* |  |  |  | with graphic references; to people and places | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with reference=Instrument |

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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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