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title: Aukele went back to the legendary land, the “Hidden Island of Kane,”… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Aukele went back to the legendary land, the “Hidden Island of Kane,” and there lived among the ghost gods who welcome the dead as they escape from wandering over the islands and fly by the path of the sunset back to the home of the most distant ancestors—the mysterious lands in the skies of the west
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 187

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Aukele went back to the legendary land, the “Hidden Island of Kane,” and there lived among the ghost gods who welcome the dead as they escape from wandering over the islands and fly by the path of the sunset back to the home of the most distant ancestors—the mysterious lands in the skies of the western seas.

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**Who acts:** Aukele, ghost gods · **What happens:** go back, live, welcome, escape, wonder, fly · **To what, where:** dead, islands

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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, ghost gods), 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:pg66357:4:187
# text = Aukele went back to the legendary land, the “Hidden Island of Kane,” and there lived among the ghost gods who welcome the dead as they escape from wandering over the islands and fly by the path of the sunset back to the home of the most distant ancestors—the mysterious lands in the skies of the western seas.
1	Aukele	Aukele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Hidden	Hidden	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	_
12	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kane	Kane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	welcome	welcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
31	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	51	advmod	_	_
51	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	appos	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | Aukele |  |  |  |  | to the legendary land *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result |
| 2 | **live** | past | Aukele *not said here* |  |  | there |  | among the ghost gods | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among god=Location |
| 3 | **welcome** | present | the ghost gods | the dead |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 4 | **escape** | present | Aukele |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Aukele *not said here* |  |  | the islands |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **fly** | infinitive | the ghost gods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the path of the sunset; to the home of the distant ancestors | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by path=Location |

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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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