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title: Hawa-iki was the name of the place from which the Polynesians came a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hawa-iki was the name of the place from which the Polynesians came and about which they talked in their most ancient stories. Who acts: Hawa iki, Polynesians. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 52

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Hawa-iki was the name of the place from which the Polynesians came and about which they talked in their most ancient stories.

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**Who acts:** Hawa iki, Polynesians · **What happens:** be, come, talk · **To what, where:** name, place, most ancient stories

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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 (Hawa iki, Polynesians), 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:pg66357:6:52
# text = Hawa-iki was the name of the place from which the Polynesians came and about which they talked in their most ancient stories.
1	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hawa iki | the name |  |  |  | of the place | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Polynesians |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **talk** | past | Polynesians *= polynesian* |  |  | Polynesians's most ancient stories |  | which *obl* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about which=Topic |

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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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