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title: The other had left his house in the hills from which the beautiful r… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The other had left his house in the hills from which the beautiful river of the Vai-ta-piha valley takes its source. Who acts: other, beautiful river. 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 8

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The other had left his house in the hills from which the beautiful river of the Vai-ta-piha valley takes its source.

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**Who acts:** other, beautiful river · **What happens:** leave, take · **To what, where:** house, hills, source

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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 (other, beautiful river), 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:pg66357:7:8
# text = The other had left his house in the hills from which the beautiful river of the Vai-ta-piha valley takes its source.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	Vai	Vai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	piha	piha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
23	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | the other | La's house |  | the hills |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in hill=Location |
| 2 | **take** | present | the beautiful river of the ta piha valley  Vai | river's source |  | the hills |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent source=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |

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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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