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title: Then lastly came the canoe voyagers—the rovings of the vikings of th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then lastly came the canoe voyagers—the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific which in New Zealand meant a new peopling of the land of the “long white cloud,” and to the Hawaiians and Tahitians and other islands almost two centuries of adventurous sea roving. Who acts: lastly, rovings, Hawaiians, ad
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 48

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Then lastly came the canoe voyagers—the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific which in New Zealand meant a new peopling of the land of the “long white cloud,” and to the Hawaiians and Tahitians and other islands almost two centuries of adventurous sea roving.

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**Who acts:** lastly, rovings, Hawaiians, adventurous sea · **What happens:** come, mean, century, rove · **To what, where:** canoe voyagers, new peopling, vikings

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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 (lastly, rovings, Hawaiians, adventurous sea), 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:pg66357:6:48
# text = Then lastly came the canoe voyagers—the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific which in New Zealand meant a new peopling of the land of the “long white cloud,” and to the Hawaiians and Tahitians and other islands almost two centuries of adventurous sea roving.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rovings	roving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vikings	viking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
19	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	peopling	peopling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	Tahitians	Tahitian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	roving	rove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | lastly | the canoe voyagers and the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voyager=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | past | the rovings of the vikings of the Pacific | a new peopling of the land of the long white cloud |  |  |  | in New Zealand | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot peopling=Theme in zealand=Attribute |
| 3 | **century** |  | the Hawaiians and Tahitians and other islands |  |  |  |  | of adventurous sea | tree rules |
| 4 | **rove** | gerund | adventurous sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rove** |  |  | the vikings of the Pacific |  |  |  |  | nom roving «act 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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