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title: They had given each other the universal Polynesian greeting—“Love to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They had given each other the universal Polynesian greeting—“Love to you,” with the reply, “Love indeed.” Who acts: 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 9

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They had given each other the universal Polynesian greeting—“Love to you,” with the reply, “Love indeed.”

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**Who acts:** hills · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** other

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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 (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:pg66357:7:9
# text = They had given each other the universal Polynesian greeting—“Love to you,” with the reply, “Love indeed.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | hills *= hill* | each other |  |  |  | with the reply; the universal Polynesian greeting *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient greeting=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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