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title: Their boyhood was like that of other Hawaiian youths of high chief b… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Their boyhood was like that of other Hawaiian youths of high chief blood. Who acts: boyhood. 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 7

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Their boyhood was like that of other Hawaiian youths of high chief blood.

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**Who acts:** boyhood · **What happens:** be

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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 (boyhood), 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:pg66357:9:7
# text = Their boyhood was like that of other Hawaiian youths of high chief blood.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | boys's boyhood |  |  |  |  | like that; of other Hawaiian youths of high chief blood | 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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