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title: When the later sea-rovers came to Hawaii, possibly in the fifth or s… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the later sea-rovers came to Hawaii, possibly in the fifth or sixth century, they found the islands already inhabited by people of their own race, and yet apparently without a chief—probably a servant class. Who acts: sea rovers, rovers, islands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 50

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When the later sea-rovers came to Hawaii, possibly in the fifth or sixth century, they found the islands already inhabited by people of their own race, and yet apparently without a chief—probably a servant class.

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**Who acts:** sea rovers, rovers, islands · **What happens:** come, find, inhabit, race · **To what, where:** Hawaii, 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 (sea rovers, rovers, 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:pg66357:5:50
# text = When the later sea-rovers came to Hawaii, possibly in the fifth or sixth century, they found the islands already inhabited by people of their own race, and yet apparently without a chief—probably a servant class.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	rovers	rover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:agent	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the sea rovers |  |  | Hawaii | century |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | rovers *= rover* | the islands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
| 3 | **inhabit** | participle |  | the islands *not said here* |  |  |  | people of islands's own race *obl:agent* | tree rules |
| 5 | **race** |  | islands *= island* |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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