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title: “A tradition stated that the first inhabitants of these islands orig… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “A tradition stated that the first inhabitants of these islands originally came from a country in the direction of the setting sun, to which several names were given. Who acts: tradition, first inhabitants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polyne
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 28

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“A tradition stated that the first inhabitants of these islands originally came from a country in the direction of the setting sun, to which several names were given.

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**Who acts:** tradition, first inhabitants · **What happens:** state, come, give · **To what, where:** country, several names · **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 (tradition, first inhabitants), 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:pg66357:6:28
# text = “A tradition stated that the first inhabitants of these islands originally came from a country in the direction of the setting sun, to which several names were given.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stated	state	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | a tradition |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the first inhabitants of this islands |  |  | a country |  | in the direction of the setting sun; originally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | several names |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient |

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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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