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title: The Nuuanu stream with its many falls and sweet waters was a place w… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nuuanu stream with its many falls and sweet waters was a place where kings had always loved to rest. Who acts: Nuuanu stream. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 11

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The Nuuanu stream with its many falls and sweet waters was a place where kings had always loved to rest.

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**Who acts:** Nuuanu stream · **What happens:** be, love, rest · **To what, where:** place, kings

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nuuanu stream), 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:pg66357:16:11
# text = The Nuuanu stream with its many falls and sweet waters was a place where kings had always loved to rest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Nuuanu	Nuuanu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Nuuanu stream with stream's many falls and sweet waters | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past · perfect · passive |  | kings |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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