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title: If the Romans believed that an ocean of thick mist, peopled with all… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Romans believed that an ocean of thick mist, peopled with all imaginable terrors lay to the north of Europe, we can well accept the fact that strange fascinations and the hope of marvellous adventures in the South Pacific might stir the restless minds of young Hawaiian chiefs. Who acts: Roman
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 14

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If the Romans believed that an ocean of thick mist, peopled with all imaginable terrors lay to the north of Europe, we can well accept the fact that strange fascinations and the hope of marvellous adventures in the South Pacific might stir the restless minds of young Hawaiian chiefs.

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**Who acts:** Romans, imaginable terrors, we, strange fascinations, marvellous adventures · **What happens:** believe, people, lay, accept, stir, hope · **To what, where:** ocean, thick mist, fact, restless minds, young Hawaiian chiefs

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romans, imaginable terrors, we, strange fascinations), 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:pg66357:9:14
# text = If the Romans believed that an ocean of thick mist, peopled with all imaginable terrors lay to the north of Europe, we can well accept the fact that strange fascinations and the hope of marvellous adventures in the South Pacific might stir the restless minds of young Hawaiian chiefs.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	peopled	people	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	terrors	terror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fascinations	fascination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Romans | a ocean of thick mist |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ocean=Stimulus |
| 2 | **people** | participle |  | thick mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | present | all imaginable terrors |  |  |  |  | to the north of Europe | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accept** | can | we | the fact |  |  |  | well *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 5 | **stir** | might | strange fascinations and the hope of marvellous adventures in the South Pacific | the restless minds of young Hawaiian chiefs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer |
| 6 | **hope** |  | marvellous adventures in the South Pacific |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **mind** |  |  | young Hawaiian chiefs |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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