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title: A journey to or from any of the Polynesian islands meant passing out… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A journey to or from any of the Polynesian islands meant passing out of one world into another. Who acts: journey. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 54

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A journey to or from any of the Polynesian islands meant passing out of one world into another.

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**Who acts:** journey · **What happens:** mean, pass out · **To what, where:** one world, another

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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 (journey), 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:pg66357:6:54
# text = A journey to or from any of the Polynesian islands meant passing out of one world into another.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | a journey |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pass out** *not said to happen* | gerund | a journey *not said here* | one world |  | another |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent world=Theme |

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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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