---
title: And yet once more the prophecy was remembered when the foreigners ca… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet once more the prophecy was remembered when the foreigners came over the ocean filling the land with new ideas, and with the bustle of new and enlarged business, beautifying and enriching all the island life with new homes and new arts. Who acts: foreigners, new business. A sentence of «Hawai
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/15/63/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [In the Days of Kahahana, 1782](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/15/) / 63

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 63

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And yet once more the prophecy was remembered when the foreigners came over the ocean filling the land with new ideas, and with the bustle of new and enlarged business, beautifying and enriching all the island life with new homes and new arts.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** foreigners, new business · **What happens:** remember, come, fill, beautify, enrich, bustle · **To what, where:** prophecy, ocean, land, island life

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (foreigners, new business), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:15:63
# text = And yet once more the prophecy was remembered when the foreigners came over the ocean filling the land with new ideas, and with the bustle of new and enlarged business, beautifying and enriching all the island life with new homes and new arts.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	enlarged	enlarged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	beautifying	beautify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	enriching	enrich	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	conj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past · passive |  | the prophecy |  |  | yet | with the bustle of new business; once *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | the foreigners |  |  | the ocean |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over ocean=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | the foreigners *not said here* | the land |  |  |  | with new ideas | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent land=Patient with idea=Instrument |
| 4 | **beautify** | gerund | new business *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **enrich** | gerund | new business *not said here* | all island life |  |  |  | with new homes and new arts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent life=Destination with home=Theme |
| 6 | **bustle** |  | new business |  |  |  |  |  | nom bustle «act intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/15/62/)
- next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/15/64/)
- ↑ back to [In the Days of Kahahana, 1782](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/15/)

