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title: So also some of the most ancient temples were referred to the myster… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: So also some of the most ancient temples were referred to the mysterious midnight labors of this people. 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 58

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So also some of the most ancient temples were referred to the mysterious midnight labors of this people.

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**What happens:** refer · **To what, where:** some, mysterious midnight labors

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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: 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:pg66357:5:58
# text = So also some of the most ancient temples were referred to the mysterious midnight labors of this people.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	labors	labor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | past · passive |  | some of the ancient temples | the mysterious midnight labors of this people |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to labor=Recipient |

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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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