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title: The Hawaiian Islands were fertile fields to greedy land-loving rover… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiian Islands were fertile fields to greedy land-loving rovers of the seas. Who acts: Hawaiian Islands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 55

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The Hawaiian Islands were fertile fields to greedy land-loving rovers of the seas.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian Islands · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fertile fields

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiian Islands), 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:pg66357:22:55
# text = The Hawaiian Islands were fertile fields to greedy land-loving rovers of the seas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rovers	rover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Hawaiian Islands | fertile fields |  |  |  | to greedy loving rovers of the seas | tree rules |

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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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