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title: The natives learned to steal some things from the supposed “heavenly… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The natives learned to steal some things from the supposed “heavenly” visitors. Who acts: natives. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 134

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The natives learned to steal some things from the supposed “heavenly” visitors.

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**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** learn, steal, suppose · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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:pg66357:12:134
# text = The natives learned to steal some things from the supposed “heavenly” visitors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	heavenly	heavenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the natives |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive | the natives *not said here* | some things |  |  |  | from the supposed visitors | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from visitor=Source |
| 3 | **suppose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | heavenly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=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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