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title: The Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of isl… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, have not taken kindly to the European names tacked upon their doorposts by the sailors who discovered them. Who acts: sailors. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Hom
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 1

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The Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, have not taken kindly to the European names tacked upon their doorposts by the sailors who discovered them.

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**Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** not take, tack, discover · **To what, where:** Hawaiians, European names, doorposts

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors), 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:pg66357:6:1
# text = The Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, have not taken kindly to the European names tacked upon their doorposts by the sailors who discovered them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	tacked	tack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	doorposts	doorpost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:agent	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **not** **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Hawaiians |  | the European names |  | kindly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to name=Destination |
| 2 | **tack** | participle |  | the European names *not said here* |  | Hawaiians's doorposts |  | the sailors *obl:agent* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon doorpost=Trajectory |
| 3 | **discover** | past | the sailors | Hawaiians *= hawaiian* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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