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title: Tahiti—Hawa-i-i. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Tahiti—Hawa-i-i. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 12

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Tahiti—Hawa-i-i.

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**To what, where:** Tahiti

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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: 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:pg66357:6:12
# text = Tahiti—Hawa-i-i.
1	Tahiti	tahiti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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