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title: Not far from the year 1100 A.D., two priest brothers were living on… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Not far from the year 1100 A.D., two priest brothers were living on Upolu, one of the Samoan Islands. Who acts: two priest brothers. 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 17

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Not far from the year 1100 A.D., two priest brothers were living on Upolu, one of the Samoan Islands.

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**Who acts:** two priest brothers · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Upolu

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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 (two priest brothers), 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:pg66357:8:17
# text = Not far from the year 1100 A.D., two priest brothers were living on Upolu, one of the Samoan Islands.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Upolu	Upolu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Samoan	Samoan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · progressive | two priest brothers |  |  | Upolu |  | one of the Samoan Islands *parataxis*; far *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on upolu=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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