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title: The idea that Hawa-iki was the home of the ghosts could very easily… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea that Hawa-iki was the home of the ghosts could very easily be derived from the other world beyond the shining wall of the sky into which any one sailing out of sight of land might be forever lost. Who acts: Hawa iki, one. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Lege
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 57

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The idea that Hawa-iki was the home of the ghosts could very easily be derived from the other world beyond the shining wall of the sky into which any one sailing out of sight of land might be forever lost.

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**Who acts:** Hawa iki, one · **What happens:** be, derive, shine, sail, lose, sight · **To what, where:** home, idea, other world, sight, one, shining wall

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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, one), 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:pg66357:6:57
# text = The idea that Hawa-iki was the home of the ghosts could very easily be derived from the other world beyond the shining wall of the sky into which any one sailing out of sight of land might be forever lost.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 home |  |  |  | of the ghosts | tree rules |
| 2 | **derive** | could · passive |  | the idea |  | the other world |  | beyond the shining wall of the sky; easily *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from world=Material |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sail** | gerund | any one *not said here* |  |  | sight of land |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sight=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lose** | might · passive |  | any one |  | the shining wall of the sky |  | forever *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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