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title: Hawaiians never reckoned history by dates, but by genealogies—as did… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hawaiians never reckoned history by dates, but by genealogies—as did the Hebrews. Who acts: Hawaiians. 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 3

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Hawaiians never reckoned history by dates, but by genealogies—as did the Hebrews.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiians · **What happens:** not reckon, do · **To what, where:** history, Hebrews

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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 (Hawaiians), 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:pg66357:8:3
# text = Hawaiians never reckoned history by dates, but by genealogies—as did the Hebrews.
1	Hawaiians	hawaiian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hebrews	Hebrew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reckon** | participle | Hawaiians | history |  |  |  | by dates but genealogies | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent history=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | past | Hawaiians *not said here* | the Hebrews |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hebrew=Eventuality |

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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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