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title: The imagination loves a truth in nature or in history and weaves aro… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The imagination loves a truth in nature or in history and weaves around it a web of thoughts of things which might have been. Who acts: imagination. 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 2

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The imagination loves a truth in nature or in history and weaves around it a web of thoughts of things which might have been.

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**Who acts:** imagination · **What happens:** love, weave, think · **To what, where:** truth, nature, web, history, things

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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 (imagination), 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:pg66357:9:2
# text = The imagination loves a truth in nature or in history and weaves around it a web of thoughts of things which might have been.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	weaves	weave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | the imagination | a truth |  | nature or history |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **weave** | present | the imagination *not said here* | a web of thoughts of things |  | history |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product |
| 3 | **think** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom thought «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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