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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 8

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The Hawaiians have always called themselves “Ka poe Hawaii”—“the Hawaiian people.”

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Hawaiians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg66357:12:8
# text = The Hawaiians have always called themselves “Ka poe Hawaii”—“the Hawaiian people.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ka	Ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	compound	_	_
9	poe	poe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Hawaiians |  |  |  | Ka poe *xcomp*; the Hawaiian people *xcomp*; always *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme themselves=Result |

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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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