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title: Ellis, writing in 1830 concerning the Tahitians and inhabitants of n… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellis, writing in 1830 concerning the Tahitians and inhabitants of neighbouring islands, says: Who acts: Ellis. 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 27

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Ellis, writing in 1830 concerning the Tahitians and inhabitants of neighbouring islands, says:

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**Who acts:** Ellis · **What happens:** write, concern, neighbour, say · **To what, where:** 1830, Tahitians · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ellis), 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:pg66357:6:27
# text = Ellis, writing in 1830 concerning the Tahitians and inhabitants of neighbouring islands, says:
1	Ellis	Ellis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tahitians	Tahitian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | gerund | Ellis *not said here* |  |  | 1830 |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1830=Destination |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | Ellis *not said here* | the Tahitians and inhabitants of neighbouring islands |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tahitian=Experiencer |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ellis |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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