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title: Holoae was a direct descendant of Paao, the eleventh century priest… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Holoae was a direct descendant of Paao, the eleventh century priest coming from Upolu, Samoa, to Hawaii. Who acts: Holoae, eleventh century priest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 123

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Holoae was a direct descendant of Paao, the eleventh century priest coming from Upolu, Samoa, to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** Holoae, eleventh century priest · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** direct descendant, Upolu

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holoae, eleventh century priest), 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:pg66357:14:123
# text = Holoae was a direct descendant of Paao, the eleventh century priest coming from Upolu, Samoa, to Hawaii.
1	Holoae	Holoae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Upolu	Upolu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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** | past | Holoae | a direct descendant |  |  |  | of Paao; the eleventh century priest *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the eleventh century priest *not said here* |  |  | Upolu and Samoa |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from upolu=Initial\_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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