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title: In meeting this demand genealogies became of great importance. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In meeting this demand genealogies became of great importance. 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 234

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In meeting this demand genealogies became of great importance.

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**What happens:** meet, become · **To what, where:** demand genealogies

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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: 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:pg66357:8:234
# text = In meeting this demand genealogies became of great importance.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | gerund |  | this demand genealogies |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genealogy=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of great importance | 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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