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title: Fornander suggests that Hawaii is derived from Java and Java from th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Fornander suggests that Hawaii is derived from Java and Java from the Arabian Saba. Who acts: Fornander. 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 45

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Fornander suggests that Hawaii is derived from Java and Java from the Arabian Saba.

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**Who acts:** Fornander · **What happens:** suggest, derive · **To what, where:** Hawaii, Java · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fornander), 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:pg66357:5:45
# text = Fornander suggests that Hawaii is derived from Java and Java from the Arabian Saba.
1	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Java	Java	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Java	Java	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Saba	Saba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Fornander |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | Hawaii |  | Java and Java |  | from the Arabian Saba | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from java=Material |

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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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