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title: Hana was the home of some of the most ancient Polynesian legends whe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hana was the home of some of the most ancient Polynesian legends when applied to the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: Hana. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 39

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Hana was the home of some of the most ancient Polynesian legends when applied to the Hawaiian Islands.

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**Who acts:** Hana · **What happens:** be, apply · **To what, where:** home

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hana), 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:pg66357:17:39
# text = Hana was the home of some of the most ancient Polynesian legends when applied to the Hawaiian Islands.
1	Hana	Hana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hana | the home |  |  |  | of some of the ancient Polynesian legends | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the Hawaiian Islands | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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