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title: It is interesting to note that Gov. Adams, whose native name was Kua… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is interesting to note that Gov. Adams, whose native name was Kuakini, did learn to read and write under the missionaries and has left two short letters, in both of which he presents a request for saws. Who acts: native name, Gov. Adams, Davis, Kuakini. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends»
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 10

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It is interesting to note that Gov. Adams, whose native name was Kuakini, did learn to read and write under the missionaries and has left two short letters, in both of which he presents a request for saws.

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**Who acts:** native name, Gov. Adams, Davis, Kuakini · **What happens:** be, note, learn, read, write, leave · **To what, where:** Kuakini, two short letters, request

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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 (native name, Gov. Adams, Davis, Kuakini), 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:pg66357:20:10
# text = It is interesting to note that Gov. Adams, whose native name was Kuakini, did learn to read and write under the missionaries and has left two short letters, in both of which he presents a request for saws.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	note	note	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	Gov.	Gov.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Adams	adam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Kuakini	Kuakini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	saws	saw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Kuakini's native name | Kuakini |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | past · do-support | Gov. Adams |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **read** | to-infinitive | Gov. Adams *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **write** | infinitive | Gov. Adams *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under the missionaries | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **leave** | present · perfect | Gov. Adams *not said here* | two short letters |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 8 | **present** | present | Davis | a request |  |  |  | for saws; which *obl* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent request=Theme for saw=Recipient |
| 9 | **name** |  | Kuakini |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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