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title: This is very fortunate for those who desire to gather together the f… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This is very fortunate for those who desire to gather together the facts out of which to weave a connected history of Polynesia. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 2

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This is very fortunate for those who desire to gather together the facts out of which to weave a connected history of Polynesia.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, desire, gather, weave, connect · **To what, where:** facts, connected history

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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 (This), 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:pg66357:6:2
# text = This is very fortunate for those who desire to gather together the facts out of which to weave a connected history of Polynesia.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | for those; fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the facts |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 4 | **weave** | to-infinitive |  | a connected history of Polynesia |  | the facts |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Product |
| 5 | **connect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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