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title: They came to the Hawaiian Islands only as the legendary memories of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They came to the Hawaiian Islands only as the legendary memories of the crocodiles and great snakes of the lands from which the first Hawaiian natives emigrated. Who acts: os, lands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 20

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They came to the Hawaiian Islands only as the legendary memories of the crocodiles and great snakes of the lands from which the first Hawaiian natives emigrated.

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**Who acts:** os, lands · **What happens:** come, native, emigrate · **To what, where:** Hawaiian Islands, first Hawaiian natives

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (os, lands), 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:pg66516:16:20
# text = They came to the Hawaiian Islands only as the legendary memories of the crocodiles and great snakes of the lands from which the first Hawaiian natives emigrated.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
25	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
27	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | os *= o* |  |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  | as the legendary memories of the crocodiles and great snakes of the lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **native** |  | the lands |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **emigrate** | participle |  | the first Hawaiian natives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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