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title: It is also interesting to note that the Hawaiian Islands do not have… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It is also interesting to note that the Hawaiian Islands do not have a good foundation for any claim to be the original centre of dispersion, although many of the most ancient legends of Hawaii and of New Zealand are the same. Who acts: Hawaiian Islands, many. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Lege
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 25

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It is also interesting to note that the Hawaiian Islands do not have a good foundation for any claim to be the original centre of dispersion, although many of the most ancient legends of Hawaii and of New Zealand are the same.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian Islands, many · **What happens:** be, note, not have · **To what, where:** good foundation, original centre

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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 (Hawaiian Islands, many), 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:pg66357:6:25
# text = It is also interesting to note that the Hawaiian Islands do not have a good foundation for any claim to be the original centre of dispersion, although many of the most ancient legends of Hawaii and of New Zealand are the same.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	note	note	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dispersion	dispersion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
28	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	_
40	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | the Hawaiian Islands | a good foundation |  |  |  | for any claim | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the original centre |  |  |  | of dispersion | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | many of the ancient legends of Hawaii and New Zealand |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |

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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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