--- title: She dwelt in one of the mysterious islands mentioned in the Hawaiian… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: She dwelt in one of the mysterious islands mentioned in the Hawaiian chants as Kua-i-Helani, “the Far-away Helani,” lying in the ancient far western home of the Polynesians. Who acts: Dragon. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1], with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/) / 3 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 3 She dwelt in one of the mysterious islands mentioned in the Hawaiian chants as Kua-i-Helani, “the Far-away Helani,” lying in the ancient far western home of the Polynesians. **Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** dwell, mention, lie · **To what, where:** mysterious islands, Hawaiian chants, ancient far western home 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 (Dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:4:3 # text = She dwelt in one of the mysterious islands mentioned in the Hawaiian chants as Kua-i-Helani, “the Far-away Helani,” lying in the ancient far western home of the Polynesians. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 mentioned mention VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Hawaiian hawaiian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 chants chant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Kua Kua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Helani Helani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Far Far ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 26 Helani Helani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 29 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Polynesians Polynesian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dwell** | past | Dragon | | | | | in one of the mysterious islands; away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location | | 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle | | the mysterious islands *not said here* | | the Hawaiian chants | | as Kua and Helani i | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | Dragon *not said here* | | | the ancient far western home of the Polynesians | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in home=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/4/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/)