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title: When he was old enough he came to his relations while they were at h… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was old enough he came to his relations while they were at home, dancing and making merry. Who acts: Maui, relations. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 17

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When he was old enough he came to his relations while they were at home, dancing and making merry.

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**Who acts:** Maui, relations · **What happens:** be, come, dance, make · **To what, where:** relations, home

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui, relations), 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:pg66357:2:17
# text = When he was old enough he came to his relations while they were at home, dancing and making merry.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Maui |  |  |  |  | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Maui |  |  | Maui's relations |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to relation=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | relations *= relation* |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | gerund | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | Maui *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *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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