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title: Lonopele, the elder, lived in one of the luxurious valleys opening u… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Lonopele, the elder, lived in one of the luxurious valleys opening upon the seacoast. Who acts: Lonopele, luxurious valleys. 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 18

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Lonopele, the elder, lived in one of the luxurious valleys opening upon the seacoast.

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**Who acts:** Lonopele, luxurious valleys · **What happens:** live, open · **To what, where:** seacoast

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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 (Lonopele, luxurious valleys), 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:pg66357:8:18
# text = Lonopele, the elder, lived in one of the luxurious valleys opening upon the seacoast.
1	Lonopele	Lonopele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	luxurious	luxurious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seacoast	seacoast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Lonopele |  |  |  |  | in one of the luxurious valleys | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | the luxurious valleys *not said here* |  |  | the seacoast |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon seacoast=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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