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title: Hawaii in some form of the word is the most universally used name am… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hawaii in some form of the word is the most universally used name among all the Polynesians as the place for their ancestral home. Who acts: Hawaii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 18

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Hawaii in some form of the word is the most universally used name among all the Polynesians as the place for their ancestral home.

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**Who acts:** Hawaii · **What happens:** use, be, form · **To what, where:** used name, word

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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 (Hawaii), 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:pg66357:6:18
# text = Hawaii in some form of the word is the most universally used name among all the Polynesians as the place for their ancestral home.
1	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | universally *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Hawaii in some form of the word | the used name |  |  |  | among all Polynesians as the place for places's ancestral home | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | the word |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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