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title: The oracle reads: “No ke kai ka hoi ua aina” (from the sea comes the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The oracle reads: “No ke kai ka hoi ua aina” (from the sea comes the life of the land). Who acts: oracle. 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 60

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The oracle reads: “No ke kai ka hoi ua aina” (from the sea comes the life of the land).

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**Who acts:** oracle · **What happens:** read, come · **To what, where:** ke, life, sea

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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 (oracle), 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:pg66357:15:60
# text = The oracle reads: “No ke kai ka hoi ua aina” (from the sea comes the life of the land).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	ke	ke	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	obj	_	_
8	kai	kai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
10	hoi	hoi	X	FW	_	12	compound	_	_
11	ua	ua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	aina	aina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | the oracle | no ke |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ke=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present |  | the life of the land |  | the sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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