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title: The above quotations are from Lorrin Andrew’s Dictionary of the Hawa… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The above quotations are from Lorrin Andrew’s Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, containing some 15,500 Hawaiian words, printed in Honolulu in 1865. Who acts: above quotations. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 49

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The above quotations are from Lorrin Andrew’s Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, containing some 15,500 Hawaiian words, printed in Honolulu in 1865.

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**Who acts:** above quotations · **What happens:** be, contain, print · **To what, where:** Dictionary, 15,500 Hawaiian words, Honolulu

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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 (above quotations), 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:pg66516:1:49
# text = The above quotations are from Lorrin Andrew’s Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, containing some 15,500 Hawaiian words, printed in Honolulu in 1865.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	above	above	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	quotations	quotation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Lorrin	Lorrin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Dictionary	Dictionary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Language	Language	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
17	15,500	15,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the above quotations |  |  | Lorrin Andrew's Dictionary |  | of the Hawaiian Language; Lorrin Andrew *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | the above quotations *not said here* | some 15,500 Hawaiian words |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme |
| 3 | **print** | participle |  | some 15,500 Hawaiian words *not said here* |  | Honolulu |  | in 1865 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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 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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