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title: This other world became mysterious as the ages passed by until at la… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This other world became mysterious as the ages passed by until at last Hawa-iki meant the place to which the spirits of the dead went, as well as the home from which their ancestors came. Who acts: other world, ages, spirits, ancestors. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 53

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This other world became mysterious as the ages passed by until at last Hawa-iki meant the place to which the spirits of the dead went, as well as the home from which their ancestors came.

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**Who acts:** other world, ages, spirits, ancestors · **What happens:** become, pass, mean, go, come · **To what, where:** ages, place, home

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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 (other world, ages, spirits, ancestors), 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:pg66357:6:53
# text = This other world became mysterious as the ages passed by until at last Hawa-iki meant the place to which the spirits of the dead went, as well as the home from which their ancestors came.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	33	cc	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | this other world |  |  |  |  | mysterious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | participle |  | the ages *not said here* |  |  |  | by last Hawa iki | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by iki=Location |
| 3 | **mean** | past | the ages | the place |  |  |  | the home *obl* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | past | the spirits of the dead |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** | past | places's ancestors |  |  | the home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |

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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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