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title: Pili had settled in North Kohala about thirty generations preceding. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Pili had settled in North Kohala about thirty generations preceding. Who acts: thirty generations. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 12

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Pili had settled in North Kohala about thirty generations preceding.

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**Who acts:** thirty generations · **What happens:** settle, precede · **To what, where:** Pili, North Kohala

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirty generations), 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:pg66357:8:12
# text = Pili had settled in North Kohala about thirty generations preceding.
1	Pili	Pili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Kohala	Kohala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past · perfect · passive |  | Pili |  | North Kohala | about thirty generations |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in kohala=Location |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund | thirty generations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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