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title: So from Tahiti, in the long ago, a voyage of many days to many lands… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: So from Tahiti, in the long ago, a voyage of many days to many lands, through many strange experiences, was undertaken by brave men and women in a small fleet of the larger kind of Polynesian boats. Who acts: brave men. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 201

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So from Tahiti, in the long ago, a voyage of many days to many lands, through many strange experiences, was undertaken by brave men and women in a small fleet of the larger kind of Polynesian boats.

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**Who acts:** brave men · **What happens:** undertake, voyage · **To what, where:** Tahiti, many days

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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 (brave men), 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:pg66357:7:201
# text = So from Tahiti, in the long ago, a voyage of many days to many lands, through many strange experiences, was undertaken by brave men and women in a small fleet of the larger kind of Polynesian boats.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · passive | brave men and women |  |  | Tahiti |  | in a small fleet of the larger kind of Polynesian boats | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **voyage** |  |  | many days to many lands and many strange experiences |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act 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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