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title: Fornander quotes the poem in his “Polynesian Race”: — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Fornander quotes the poem in his “Polynesian Race”: Who acts: Fornander. 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 79

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Fornander quotes the poem in his “Polynesian Race”:

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**Who acts:** Fornander · **What happens:** quote, race · **To what, where:** poem, Polynesian Race

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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 (Fornander), 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:pg66357:11:79
# text = Fornander quotes the poem in his “Polynesian Race”:
1	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	quotes	quote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present | Fornander | the poem |  | Fornander's Polynesian Race |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic |
| 2 | **race** *in a quote* |  | Fornander |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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