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title: “The Self-reliant Dragon” is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawa… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Self-reliant Dragon” is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawaiian legends. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 1

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“The Self-reliant Dragon” is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawaiian legends.

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**What happens:** mention · **To what, where:** reliant Dragon, oldest Hawaiian legends

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. 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:pg66357:4:1
# text = “The Self-reliant Dragon” is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawaiian legends.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	reliant	reliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the reliant Dragon |  | the oldest Hawaiian legends |  | frequently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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