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description: Ti-i went almost directly east from the old home, and found the Society Islands. Who acts: i. 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 26

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Ti-i went almost directly east from the old home, and found the Society Islands.

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**Who acts:** i · **What happens:** go, find · **To what, where:** old home, Society Islands

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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 (i), 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:pg66357:5:26
# text = Ti-i went almost directly east from the old home, and found the Society Islands.
1	Ti	Ti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	east	east	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | i |  |  | the old home |  | Ti *vocative*; east *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | i *not said here* | the Society Islands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |

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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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