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title: Hale-a-ka-la—“House of the sun”—afforded soil sufficient to give lif… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hale-a-ka-la—“House of the sun”—afforded soil sufficient to give life or foothold. 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 141

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Hale-a-ka-la—“House of the sun”—afforded soil sufficient to give life or foothold.

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**What happens:** afford, give · **To what, where:** life

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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: 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:pg66357:14:141
# text = Hale-a-ka-la—“House of the sun”—afforded soil sufficient to give life or foothold.
1	Hale	hale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	foothold	foothold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afford** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | life or foothold |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |

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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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