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title: The missionaries landed at Kailua on the island Hawaii, April 4, 182… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The missionaries landed at Kailua on the island Hawaii, April 4, 1820, and there divided their party, the larger number coming to “Hanaroorah, Honolulu, April 19.” Who acts: missionaries, larger number. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing, with it
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 14

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The missionaries landed at Kailua on the island Hawaii, April 4, 1820, and there divided their party, the larger number coming to “Hanaroorah, Honolulu, April 19.”

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**Who acts:** missionaries, larger number · **What happens:** land, divide, come · **To what, where:** 4, Kailua, party, Hanaroorah

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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 (missionaries, larger number), 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:pg66357:20:14
# text = The missionaries landed at Kailua on the island Hawaii, April 4, 1820, and there divided their party, the larger number coming to “Hanaroorah, Honolulu, April 19.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kailua	Kailua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	1820	1820	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Hanaroorah	Hanaroorah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | the missionaries | 4  April |  | Kailua |  | on the island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on island=Destination |
| 2 | **divide** | past | the missionaries *not said here* | missionaries's party and the larger number |  | there |  | 19  April *obl* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | the larger number *not said here* |  |  | Hanaroorah and Honolulu |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hanaroorah=Initial\_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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