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title: Foreigners from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remai… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Foreigners from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remained with them forty years before the missionaries came. Who acts: Foreigners. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 1

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Foreigners from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remained with them forty years before the missionaries came.

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**Who acts:** Foreigners · **What happens:** call, remain, come · **To what, where:** world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foreigners), 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:pg66357:20:1
# text = Foreigners from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remained with them forty years before the missionaries came.
1	Foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | the world *not said here* |  |  | before the missionaries; year | the Hawaiians *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with Foreigners *= foreigner* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Foreigners from the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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