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title: “Some of my choice fruits, brought from Tahiti, are beginning to rip… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Some of my choice fruits, brought from Tahiti, are beginning to ripen; and each night Kaino, your son, creeps under the low branches, and gathers whatever is good.” Who acts: Some, night, whatever. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa, with its dependency
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 25

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“Some of my choice fruits, brought from Tahiti, are beginning to ripen; and each night Kaino, your son, creeps under the low branches, and gathers whatever is good.”

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**Who acts:** Some, night, whatever · **What happens:** bring, begin, ripen, creep, gather, be · **To what, where:** choice fruits, Tahiti, low branches · **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 (Some, night, whatever), 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:pg66357:8:25
# text = “Some of my choice fruits, brought from Tahiti, are beginning to ripen; and each night Kaino, your son, creeps under the low branches, and gathers whatever is good.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ripen	ripen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	Kaino	Kaino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
25	creeps	creep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
33	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | participle |  | my choice fruits *not said here* |  | Tahiti |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from tahiti=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Some of my choice fruits |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ripen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Some of my choice fruits *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **creep** *in a quote* | present | each night |  |  | the low branches |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under branch=Trajectory |
| 5 | **gather** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | whatever |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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