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title: His home was near the “green precipiced paradise” of Hawaiian legend… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: His home was near the “green precipiced paradise” of Hawaiian legend, the place where the water of life gave forth healing even for the dead. Who acts: home, water. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 20

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His home was near the “green precipiced paradise” of Hawaiian legend, the place where the water of life gave forth healing even for the dead.

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**Who acts:** home, water · **What happens:** precipice, be, give, heal · **To what, where:** green precipiced paradise

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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 (home, water), 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:pg66357:5:20
# text = His home was near the “green precipiced paradise” of Hawaiian legend, the place where the water of life gave forth healing even for the dead.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	precipiced	precipice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **precipice** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | first's home |  |  | the green precipiced paradise and the place |  | of Hawaiian legend; the place *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | the water of life |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **heal** | gerund | the water of life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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