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title: On he sailed with his family until he came to Hawaii—“the burning Ja… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On he sailed with his family until he came to Hawaii—“the burning Java,” the land of volcanoes and earthquakes and of luxuriant valleys and fertile seacoasts. Who acts: loa. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 44

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On he sailed with his family until he came to Hawaii—“the burning Java,” the land of volcanoes and earthquakes and of luxuriant valleys and fertile seacoasts.

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**Who acts:** loa · **What happens:** sail, come, burn · **To what, where:** burning Java, Hawaii

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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 (loa), 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:pg66357:5:44
# text = On he sailed with his family until he came to Hawaii—“the burning Java,” the land of volcanoes and earthquakes and of luxuriant valleys and fertile seacoasts.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	Java	java	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	seacoasts	seacoast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | loa | the burning Java |  |  |  | with loa's family | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | loa |  |  | Hawaii |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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