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title: The students of Polynesian legends are practically united in ascribi… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The students of Polynesian legends are practically united in ascribing the Hawaii of mythology to some place west of all the islands. Who acts: students. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 37

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The students of Polynesian legends are practically united in ascribing the Hawaii of mythology to some place west of all the islands.

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**Who acts:** students · **What happens:** be, ascribe · **To what, where:** Hawaii

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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 (students), 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:pg66357:6:37
# text = The students of Polynesian legends are practically united in ascribing the Hawaii of mythology to some place west of all the islands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ascribing	ascribe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	west	west	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the students of Polynesian legends |  |  |  |  | practically, united *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ascribe** | gerund | the students of Polynesian legends *not said here* | the Hawaii of mythology |  |  |  | to some place; west *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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