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title: For pure imagination and pathos it is difficult to find any tale fro… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: For pure imagination and pathos it is difficult to find any tale from Grecian or Latin literature to compare with it. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 2

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For pure imagination and pathos it is difficult to find any tale from Grecian or Latin literature to compare with it.

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**What happens:** be, find, compare · **To what, where:** tale, Grecian literature

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66357:3:2
# text = For pure imagination and pathos it is difficult to find any tale from Grecian or Latin literature to compare with it.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pathos	pathos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for pure imagination and pathos; difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | any tale |  | Grecian literature |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Theme from literature=Source |
| 3 | **compare** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with literature | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient |

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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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