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title: The native who sighs for the return of the days of the olden time wo… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The native who sighs for the return of the days of the olden time would speedily try to get back out of the fire into what he considers a frying pan. Who acts: native, days, land. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 68

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The native who sighs for the return of the days of the olden time would speedily try to get back out of the fire into what he considers a frying pan.

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**Who acts:** native, days, land · **What happens:** sigh, try, get back, consider, return · **To what, where:** fire, frying pan

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native, days, land), 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:pg66357:21:68
# text = The native who sighs for the return of the days of the olden time would speedily try to get back out of the fire into what he considers a frying pan.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sighs	sigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	considers	consider	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	frying	frying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | present | the native |  |  |  |  | for the return of the days; who *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for return=Recipient |
| 2 | **try** | would | the days *not said here* |  |  |  | time | speedily *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the days *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out fire=Destination |
| 4 | **consider** | present | land | a frying pan |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme pan=Attribute |
| 5 | **return** |  | the days |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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