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title: In fact the Hawaiian traditions tell a great deal more about Paao, t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In fact the Hawaiian traditions tell a great deal more about Paao, the founder of the high-priest family of Hawaii, than about Pili, the ancestor of kings. Who acts: Hawaiian traditions. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and th
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 16

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In fact the Hawaiian traditions tell a great deal more about Paao, the founder of the high-priest family of Hawaii, than about Pili, the ancestor of kings.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian traditions · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** great deal, fact · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hawaiian traditions), 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:pg66357:8:16
# text = In fact the Hawaiian traditions tell a great deal more about Paao, the founder of the high-priest family of Hawaii, than about Pili, the ancestor of kings.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Paao	Paao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Pili	Pili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Hawaiian traditions | a great deal and the founder of the priest family of Hawaii |  | fact |  | than Pili | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deal=Recipient |

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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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