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title: Some years later Hewa-hewa became a devoted adherent to Christianity. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Some years later Hewa-hewa became a devoted adherent to Christianity. Who acts: Hewa hewa. 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 150

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Some years later Hewa-hewa became a devoted adherent to Christianity.

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**Who acts:** Hewa hewa · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** devoted adherent

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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 (Hewa hewa), 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:pg66357:8:150
# text = Some years later Hewa-hewa became a devoted adherent to Christianity.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
4	Hewa	Hewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	hewa	hewa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	adherent	adherent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Hewa hewa | a devoted adherent to Christianity |  |  | year | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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