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title: We believe the Hawaiian to be the most copious and expressive, as we… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: We believe the Hawaiian to be the most copious and expressive, as well as the richest in native traditional history and poetry. Who acts: We. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 25

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We believe the Hawaiian to be the most copious and expressive, as well as the richest in native traditional history and poetry.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** Hawaiian

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg66516:31:25
# text = We believe the Hawaiian to be the most copious and expressive, as well as the richest in native traditional history and poetry.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	copious	copious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	expressive	expressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | We | the Hawaiian |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawaiian=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | copious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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