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title: Gods and demi-gods lived in caves and small grass houses. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Gods and demi-gods lived in caves and small grass houses. Who acts: Gods. 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 47

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Gods and demi-gods lived in caves and small grass houses.

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**Who acts:** Gods · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** caves

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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 (Gods), 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:pg66357:2:47
# text = Gods and demi-gods lived in caves and small grass houses.
1	Gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Gods and demi gods |  |  | caves and small grass houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |

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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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