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title: Aukele thought he would like to see his parents once more, so he wen… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Aukele thought he would like to see his parents once more, so he went to the far-away Helani—but the land was desolate. Who acts: Aukele, Kane, land. 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 176

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Aukele thought he would like to see his parents once more, so he went to the far-away Helani—but the land was desolate.

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**Who acts:** Aukele, Kane, land · **What happens:** think, like, see, go, be · **To what, where:** parents, far Helani · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Aukele, Kane, 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:pg66357:4:176
# text = Aukele thought he would like to see his parents once more, so he went to the far-away Helani—but the land was desolate.
1	Aukele	Aukele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	Helani	Helani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Aukele |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | would | Kane |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kane *not said here* | Kane's parents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | Kane |  |  | the far Helani |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to helani=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | the land |  |  |  |  | desolate *property* | 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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