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title: The early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern part of the island Hawaii, near Kilauea, brought many names and legends from far-away Polynesian lands to Hawaii. Who acts: early inhabitants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 40

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The early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern part of the island Hawaii, near Kilauea, brought many names and legends from far-away Polynesian lands to Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** early inhabitants · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** many names, Polynesian lands

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (early inhabitants), 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:pg66516:13:40
# text = The early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern part of the island Hawaii, near Kilauea, brought many names and legends from far-away Polynesian lands to Hawaii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	southwestern	southwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the early inhabitants of the region around Hilo in the southwestern part of the island | many names and legends |  | Polynesian lands to Hawaii |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from land=Initial\_Location |

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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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