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title: In far eastern Tahiti is a place on Raiatea, the island now known as… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In far eastern Tahiti is a place on Raiatea, the island now known as Opoa. 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 22

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In far eastern Tahiti is a place on Raiatea, the island now known as Opoa.

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**What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** place, eastern Tahiti, island

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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:pg66357:6:22
# text = In far eastern Tahiti is a place on Raiatea, the island now known as Opoa.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Raiatea	Raiatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Opoa	Opoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a place |  | eastern Tahiti |  | on Raiatea; the island *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the island *not said here* |  |  | now | as Opoa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as opoa=Attribute |

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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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