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title: Hawaii-loa—“the Great Hawaii”—may well be considered both a founder… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hawaii-loa—“the Great Hawaii”—may well be considered both a founder of the Polynesian race and the first settler of the Hawaiian Islands. Who acts: Hawaii loa. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 65

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Hawaii-loa—“the Great Hawaii”—may well be considered both a founder of the Polynesian race and the first settler of the Hawaiian Islands.

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**Who acts:** Hawaii loa · **What happens:** consider · **To what, where:** founder, Hawaii loa

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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 (Hawaii loa), 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:pg66357:5:65
# text = Hawaii-loa—“the Great Hawaii”—may well be considered both a founder of the Polynesian race and the first settler of the Hawaiian Islands.
1	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	loa	loa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
15	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	settler	settler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | may · passive | Hawaii loa *not said here* | a founder of the Polynesian race and the first settler of the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  | well *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |

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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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