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title: The story of Laa, who, in late life, was known as “Laa from Tahiti,”… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of Laa, who, in late life, was known as “Laa from Tahiti,” must be reserved for later record. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 17

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The story of Laa, who, in late life, was known as “Laa from Tahiti,” must be reserved for later record.

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**What happens:** know, reserve · **To what, where:** story, Tahiti

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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: 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:pg66357:9:17
# text = The story of Laa, who, in late life, was known as “Laa from Tahiti,” must be reserved for later record.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Laa	laa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Tahiti	Tahiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the story of Laa and late life  the story of Laa and late life  the story |  |  |  | as Laa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as laa=Attribute |
| 2 | **reserve** | must · passive |  |  |  | Tahiti |  | for later record | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: from tahiti=Source for record=Asset |

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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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