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title: He flew straight a long time until he found a strange land with a de… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He flew straight a long time until he found a strange land with a deep pit lined with trees and wonderful plants. Who acts: traveller. 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 122

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He flew straight a long time until he found a strange land with a deep pit lined with trees and wonderful plants.

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**Who acts:** traveller · **What happens:** fly, find, line · **To what, where:** strange land, deep pit

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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: who acts (traveller), 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:pg66357:4:122
# text = He flew straight a long time until he found a strange land with a deep pit lined with trees and wonderful plants.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | traveller |  |  |  | time | straight *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | traveller | a strange land |  |  |  | with a deep pit | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 3 | **line** | participle |  | a deep pit *not said here* |  |  |  | with trees and wonderful plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme |

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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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