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title: One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands was known as… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands was known as Ava-Moa, the Moa Harbour, or “The Sacred Harbour.” 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 38

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One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands was known as Ava-Moa, the Moa Harbour, or “The Sacred Harbour.”

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** One

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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:pg66357:9:38
# text = One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands was known as Ava-Moa, the Moa Harbour, or “The Sacred Harbour.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	harbours	harbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Raiatea	Raiatea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Tahitian	Tahitian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Moa	Moa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Moa	Moa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | One of the harbours of Raiatea of the Tahitian Islands |  |  |  | as Ava and Moa and the Moa Harbour; the Sacred Harbour *parataxis* | 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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