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title: The path into this other world—this Hawa-iki of the ancestors—was un… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The path into this other world—this Hawa-iki of the ancestors—was universally toward the west—the golden path of the setting sun. Who acts: path. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 58

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The path into this other world—this Hawa-iki of the ancestors—was universally toward the west—the golden path of the setting sun.

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**Who acts:** path · **What happens:** be

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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 (path), 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:pg66357:6:58
# text = The path into this other world—this Hawa-iki of the ancestors—was universally toward the west—the golden path of the setting sun.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
9	Hawa	Hawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	universally	universally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the path into this other world |  |  |  |  | toward the west and the golden path of the setting sun.; the golden path of the setting sun. *conj*; universally *property* | tree rules |

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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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