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title: The Hawaiians have both the chant—the mele, and the tradition—the ol… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiians have both the chant—the mele, and the tradition—the olelo. Who acts: Hawaiians. 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 7

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The Hawaiians have both the chant—the mele, and the tradition—the olelo.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** chant

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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 (Hawaiians), 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:pg66357:5:7
# text = The Hawaiians have both the chant—the mele, and the tradition—the olelo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc:preconj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mele	mele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	olelo	olelo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Hawaiians | the chant and the mele |  |  |  | the tradition and the olelo *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Patient |

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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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