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title: The tropical luxuriance of the region around Honolulu belongs to to-… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The tropical luxuriance of the region around Honolulu belongs to to-day and not to a hundred years ago. Who acts: tropical luxuriance. 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 24

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The tropical luxuriance of the region around Honolulu belongs to to-day and not to a hundred years ago.

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**Who acts:** tropical luxuriance · **What happens:** belong

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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 (tropical luxuriance), 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:pg66357:16:24
# text = The tropical luxuriance of the region around Honolulu belongs to to-day and not to a hundred years ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | the tropical luxuriance of the region around Honolulu |  |  |  | day |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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