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title: This chant had been clearly recited wherever Moi-keha had visited an… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This chant had been clearly recited wherever Moi-keha had visited any of the islands, and now fell for the first time on the ears of the curious inhabitants of Kauai. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 67

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This chant had been clearly recited wherever Moi-keha had visited any of the islands, and now fell for the first time on the ears of the curious inhabitants of Kauai.

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**What happens:** recite, visit, fall · **To what, where:** chant, Moi

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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:pg66357:9:67
# text = This chant had been clearly recited wherever Moi-keha had visited any of the islands, and now fell for the first time on the ears of the curious inhabitants of Kauai.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	Moi	Moi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	keha	keha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | past · perfect · passive |  | this chant |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | past · perfect · passive |  | Moi |  |  |  | wherever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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