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title: The long rushes and grasses from the sea marshes and the long leaves… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The long rushes and grasses from the sea marshes and the long leaves of the pandanus tree made a very good if not a very enduring home. Who acts: long rushes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 3

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The long rushes and grasses from the sea marshes and the long leaves of the pandanus tree made a very good if not a very enduring home.

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**Who acts:** long rushes · **What happens:** make

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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 (long rushes), 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:pg66357:19:3
# text = The long rushes and grasses from the sea marshes and the long leaves of the pandanus tree made a very good if not a very enduring home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	pandanus	pandanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	enduring	enduring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the long rushes from the sea marshes and the long leaves of the pandanus tree and grasses |  |  |  |  | a enduring home *advcl*; good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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