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title: Around Papeete Bay are some beautiful hills, with sloping, grassy si… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Around Papeete Bay are some beautiful hills, with sloping, grassy sides. Who acts: Papeete Bay, beautiful hills. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 155

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Around Papeete Bay are some beautiful hills, with sloping, grassy sides.

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**Who acts:** Papeete Bay, beautiful hills · **What happens:** be, slope · **To what, where:** beautiful hills

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Papeete Bay, beautiful hills), 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:pg66357:7:155
# text = Around Papeete Bay are some beautiful hills, with sloping, grassy sides.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Papeete	Papeete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sloping	slope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Papeete Bay | some beautiful hills and grassy sides |  |  |  | grassy sides *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slope** | gerund | some beautiful hills and grassy sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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