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title: Then they asked a native who was visiting them, whose home was on th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they asked a native who was visiting them, whose home was on the other side of the island: “O Paiea, do you know who this is?” Who acts: people, home, you. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 93

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Then they asked a native who was visiting them, whose home was on the other side of the island: “O Paiea, do you know who this is?”

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**Who acts:** people, home, you · **What happens:** ask, visit, be, know · **To what, where:** native, people, other side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, home, you), 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:pg66357:18:93
# text = Then they asked a native who was visiting them, whose home was on the other side of the island: “O Paiea, do you know who this is?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	_
24	Paiea	Paiea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	ccomp	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | people | a native |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent native=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **visit** | past · progressive |  | people |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the other side's home |  |  | the other side |  | of the island | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | of Paiea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of paiea=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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