---
title: This is the original Hawa-iki from which Polynesia was first settled… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the original Hawa-iki from which Polynesia was first settled, expeditions probably passing out to the far distant island groups. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/47/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [Legendary Home of the Polynesians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/) / 47

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 47

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
This is the original Hawa-iki from which Polynesia was first settled, expeditions probably passing out to the far distant island groups.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, settle, pass out · **To what, where:** original Hawa iki, Polynesia, far distant island groups

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:6:47
# text = This is the original Hawa-iki from which Polynesia was first settled, expeditions probably passing out to the far distant island groups.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
10	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the original Hawa iki |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **settle** | past · passive |  | Polynesia |  | the original Hawa iki |  | expeditions *conj*; first *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 3 | **pass out** | gerund |  |  | the far distant island groups |  |  | probably *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to group=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/46/)
- next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/48/)
- ↑ back to [Legendary Home of the Polynesians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/)