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title: If one or two remained or if all waited on the land there would be n… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: If one or two remained or if all waited on the land there would be no fire—but the dawn which saw the four brothers in the boat, saw also the fire on the land. Who acts: dawn. 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 59

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If one or two remained or if all waited on the land there would be no fire—but the dawn which saw the four brothers in the boat, saw also the fire on the land.

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**Who acts:** dawn · **What happens:** remain, wait, be, see · **To what, where:** one, land, fire, four brothers, boat

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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 (dawn), 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:pg66357:2:59
# text = If one or two remained or if all waited on the land there would be no fire—but the dawn which saw the four brothers in the boat, saw also the fire on the land.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | one |  |  | dawn |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **wait** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  |  |  | the land; there |  | all *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | would |  | no fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | the dawn | the four brothers |  | the boat |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | past | the dawn *not said here* | the fire |  | the land |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |

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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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