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title: The legends have been shorn of the fabulous element which naturally… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The legends have been shorn of the fabulous element which naturally gathered around them, in order that the true names and customs of the time might be delineated. Who acts: order. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 232

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The legends have been shorn of the fabulous element which naturally gathered around them, in order that the true names and customs of the time might be delineated.

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**Who acts:** order · **What happens:** shorn, gather, delineate, name · **To what, where:** legends, order, fabulous element, true names, time

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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 (order), 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:pg66357:8:232
# text = The legends have been shorn of the fabulous element which naturally gathered around them, in order that the true names and customs of the time might be delineated.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	shorn	shorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fabulous	fabulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	delineated	delineate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shorn** | present · perfect · passive |  | the legends |  | order |  | of the fabulous element | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | past |  | the fabulous element |  |  |  | around legends *= legend*; naturally *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **delineate** | might · passive | order *not said here* | the true names of the time and customs |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the time |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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