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title: Live shall the seer and the slave, Dwell on Hawaii and be at rest, A… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Live shall the seer and the slave, Dwell on Hawaii and be at rest, And attain to old age on Kauai. 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 65

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Live shall the seer and the slave, Dwell on Hawaii and be at rest, And attain to old age on Kauai.

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**What happens:** dwell, be, attain · **To what, where:** Hawaii, rest, Live seer

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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:pg66357:9:65
# text = Live shall the seer and the slave, Dwell on Hawaii and be at rest, And attain to old age on Kauai.
1	Live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	attain	attain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | infinitive |  |  |  | Hawaii |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hawaii=Location |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | rest |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attain** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | to old age on Kauai |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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