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title: One of the legends states that a priest desired to carry the Menehun… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the legends states that a priest desired to carry the Menehune people across the long stretch of ocean between the foreign lands and the Island of Oahu, therefore “he stretched out his hands to the farthest bounds of Tahiti and over him the Menehunes—the servants—crossed to Oahu.” Who acts: O
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 59

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One of the legends states that a priest desired to carry the Menehune people across the long stretch of ocean between the foreign lands and the Island of Oahu, therefore “he stretched out his hands to the farthest bounds of Tahiti and over him the Menehunes—the servants—crossed to Oahu.”

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**Who acts:** One, priest · **What happens:** state, desire, carry, stretch out, cross · **To what, where:** Menehune people, long stretch, hands, servants, Oahu · **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 (One, priest), 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:pg66357:5:59
# text = One of the legends states that a priest desired to carry the Menehune people across the long stretch of ocean between the foreign lands and the Island of Oahu, therefore “he stretched out his hands to the farthest bounds of Tahiti and over him the Menehunes—the servants—crossed to Oahu.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	states	state	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Menehune	Menehune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stretch	stretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	over	over	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Menehunes	Menehune	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present | One of the legends |  |  |  |  | the servants *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** | participle | a priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a priest *not said here* | the Menehune people |  | the long stretch of ocean between the foreign lands and the Island of Oahu |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **stretch out** *in a quote* | past | priest | priest's hands |  |  |  | to the farthest bounds of Tahiti and the Menehunes over Oahu *result*; therefore *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to bound=Result |
| 5 | **cross** *in a quote* | participle |  | the servants *not said here* |  | Oahu |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to oahu=Initial\_Location |

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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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