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title: To-day the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: thatched house. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 1

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To-day the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands.

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**Who acts:** thatched house · **What happens:** thatch, be · **To what, where:** curiosity, Hawaiian Islands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thatched house), 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:pg66357:19:1
# text = To-day the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the thatched house | a curiosity |  | the Hawaiian Islands | day |  | 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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