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title: To the north lay the land Ulu-nui or “the Great Ulu,” possibly Ur of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: To the north lay the land Ulu-nui or “the Great Ulu,” possibly Ur of Chaldea. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 19

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To the north lay the land Ulu-nui or “the Great Ulu,” possibly Ur of Chaldea.

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**What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** land

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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: 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:pg66357:5:19
# text = To the north lay the land Ulu-nui or “the Great Ulu,” possibly Ur of Chaldea.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	nui	nui	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Ur	Ur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Chaldea	Chaldea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the land |  |  |  | to the north | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme |

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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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