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title: At last, drawing themselves out to gigantic proportions, they pushed… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, drawing themselves out to gigantic proportions, they pushed the entire heavens up to the very lofty position which they have ever since occupied. Who acts: Islanders. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 43

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At last, drawing themselves out to gigantic proportions, they pushed the entire heavens up to the very lofty position which they have ever since occupied.

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**Who acts:** Islanders · **What happens:** draw out, push, have · **To what, where:** Islanders, gigantic proportions, entire heavens, lofty position

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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 (Islanders), 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:pg66357:2:43
# text = At last, drawing themselves out to gigantic proportions, they pushed the entire heavens up to the very lofty position which they have ever since occupied.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	proportions	proportion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
26	since	since	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw out** | gerund | Islanders *= islander* *not said here* | Islanders *= islander* |  | gigantic proportions |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to proportion=Destination |
| 2 | **push** | past | Islanders *= islander* | the entire heavens |  | the lofty position |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme up position=Trajectory |
| 3 | **have** | present | Islanders *= islander* | the lofty position |  |  |  | occupied *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |

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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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