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title: Fornander justly argues that there is little doubt that this was the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Fornander justly argues that there is little doubt that this was the place selected by Olopana as his permanent home. Who acts: Fornander, little doubt, this. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 39

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Fornander justly argues that there is little doubt that this was the place selected by Olopana as his permanent home.

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**Who acts:** Fornander, little doubt, this · **What happens:** argue, be, select · **To what, where:** place

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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 (Fornander, little doubt, this), 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:pg66357:9:39
# text = Fornander justly argues that there is little doubt that this was the place selected by Olopana as his permanent home.
1	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl	_	_
14	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Olopana	Olopana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Fornander |  |  |  |  | justly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **select** | participle |  | the place *not said here* |  |  |  | by Olopana; as Olopana's permanent home | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as home=Attribute |

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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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