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title: In attempting to trace the place of origin of the Hawaiians and othe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In attempting to trace the place of origin of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians it is absolutely necessary to take into account this phonetic difficulty. Who acts: attempting. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tr
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 9

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In attempting to trace the place of origin of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians it is absolutely necessary to take into account this phonetic difficulty.

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**Who acts:** attempting · **What happens:** attempt, trace, be, take · **To what, where:** place, phonetic difficulty, account

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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 (attempting), 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:pg66357:6:9
# text = In attempting to trace the place of origin of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians it is absolutely necessary to take into account this phonetic difficulty.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	phonetic	phonetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **trace** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the place of origin of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians |  |  |  | origin *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | attempting |  |  |  |  | absolutely, necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | this phonetic difficulty |  | account |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme into account=Destination |

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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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