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title: Besides this chant there are many legends and references which make… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides this chant there are many legends and references which make him an important ancestor among Hawaiians, an ancestor of islands rather than of families. Who acts: many legends. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree an
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 17

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Besides this chant there are many legends and references which make him an important ancestor among Hawaiians, an ancestor of islands rather than of families.

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**Who acts:** many legends · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** first

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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 (many legends), 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:pg66357:5:17
# text = Besides this chant there are many legends and references which make him an important ancestor among Hawaiians, an ancestor of islands rather than of families.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | many legends and references |  |  | there |  | besides this chant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | many legends and references | first |  |  |  | among Hawaiians; a important ancestor *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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