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title: The Tahitian, Samoan, New Zealander, and Hawaiian, though thousands… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tahitian, Samoan, New Zealander, and Hawaiian, though thousands of miles apart, are members of one family, and require but a short period to acquire the faculty of a free exchange of ideas. Who acts: thousands, Tahitian. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 4

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The Tahitian, Samoan, New Zealander, and Hawaiian, though thousands of miles apart, are members of one family, and require but a short period to acquire the faculty of a free exchange of ideas.

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**Who acts:** thousands, Tahitian · **What happens:** be, require, acquire, exchange · **To what, where:** members, faculty, ideas

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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 (thousands, Tahitian), 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:pg66357:6:4
# text = The Tahitian, Samoan, New Zealander, and Hawaiian, though thousands of miles apart, are members of one family, and require but a short period to acquire the faculty of a free exchange of ideas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tahitian	Tahitian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Samoan	Samoan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Zealander	Zealander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	faculty	faculty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | thousands of miles | members |  |  |  | of one family | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | infinitive | the Tahitian and Samoan and New Zealander and Hawaiian and members |  |  |  |  | a short period *conj* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **acquire** | to-infinitive | the Tahitian and Samoan and New Zealander and Hawaiian and members *not said here* | the faculty of a free exchange of ideas |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset faculty=Theme |
| 4 | **exchange** |  |  | ideas |  |  |  |  | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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