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title: No people have use for generic terms until they begin to reason and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: No people have use for generic terms until they begin to reason and the language shows that they were better warriors and poets than philosophers and statesmen. Who acts: people, language. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tre
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 45

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No people have use for generic terms until they begin to reason and the language shows that they were better warriors and poets than philosophers and statesmen.

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**Who acts:** people, language · **What happens:** have, begin, show, be · **To what, where:** use, better warriors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, language), 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:pg66516:1:45
# text = No people have use for generic terms until they begin to reason and the language shows that they were better warriors and poets than philosophers and statesmen.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	generic	generic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	TO	_	12	case	_	_
12	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	statesmen	statesman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | no people | use |  |  |  | for generic terms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | present | people |  |  |  |  | to reason | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **show** | present | the language |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | people | better warriors and poets than philosophers and statesmen |  |  |  | poets than philosophers and statesmen *conj* | 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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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