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title: The most interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian I… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The most interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian Islands belongs to the greatest work accomplished for the good of the people—the printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language. Who acts: interesting part. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawai
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 43

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The most interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian Islands belongs to the greatest work accomplished for the good of the people—the printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language.

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**Who acts:** interesting part · **What happens:** belong, accomplish, print · **To what, where:** greatest work, Bible, Hawaiian language

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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 (interesting part), 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:pg66357:20:43
# text = The most interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian Islands belongs to the greatest work accomplished for the good of the people—the printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **belong** | present | the interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | to the greatest work; the printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language *parataxis* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accomplish** | participle |  | the greatest work *not said here* |  |  |  | for the good of the people | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **print** |  |  | the Bible |  | the Hawaiian language |  |  | nom printing «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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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