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title: The Polynesian folklore abounds in stories of remarkable men, bold e… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Polynesian folklore abounds in stories of remarkable men, bold expeditions, stirring adventures and voyages to far-off lands. Who acts: Polynesian folklore. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 13

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The Polynesian folklore abounds in stories of remarkable men, bold expeditions, stirring adventures and voyages to far-off lands.

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**Who acts:** Polynesian folklore · **What happens:** abound, stir · **To what, where:** stories, adventures

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polynesian folklore), 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:pg66357:5:13
# text = The Polynesian folklore abounds in stories of remarkable men, bold expeditions, stirring adventures and voyages to far-off lands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	abounds	abound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound	_	_
22	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | present | the Polynesian folklore |  |  | stories of remarkable men and bold expeditions |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location |
| 2 | **stir** | gerund | the Polynesian folklore *not said here* | adventures and voyages |  |  |  | to off lands | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient to land=Co-Patient |

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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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