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title: It is said that after he brought his family to Hawaii, new islands s… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is said that after he brought his family to Hawaii, new islands sprang out of the sea, well wooded and well watered. Who acts: chief, new islands. 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 48

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It is said that after he brought his family to Hawaii, new islands sprang out of the sea, well wooded and well watered.

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**Who acts:** chief, new islands · **What happens:** say, bring, spring out, wood, water · **To what, where:** portion, family, Hawaii, sea · **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 (chief, new islands), 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:pg66357:5:48
# text = It is said that after he brought his family to Hawaii, new islands sprang out of the sea, well wooded and well watered.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | portion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | chief | chief's family | Hawaii |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme to hawaii=Destination |
| 3 | **spring out** | past | new islands | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location sea=Theme |
| 4 | **wood** | participle | new islands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **water** | participle | new islands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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