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title: The oracle was easily remembered, although the words concerning the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The oracle was easily remembered, although the words concerning the death of his son are repeated in various forms. Who acts: words, son. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 59

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The oracle was easily remembered, although the words concerning the death of his son are repeated in various forms.

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**Who acts:** words, son · **What happens:** remember, concern, repeat, die · **To what, where:** oracle, death, words, various forms

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, son), 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:pg66357:15:59
# text = The oracle was easily remembered, although the words concerning the death of his son are repeated in various forms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	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 | **remember** | past · passive |  | the oracle |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | the words *not said here* | the death of method's son |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer |
| 3 | **repeat** | present · passive |  | the words |  | various forms |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **die** |  | method's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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