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title: For example, the Marquesan converts are using Hawaiian books and the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, the Marquesan converts are using Hawaiian books and the people of the Austral Islands read the Tahitian Bible.” Who acts: Marquesan converts, people. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 35

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For example, the Marquesan converts are using Hawaiian books and the people of the Austral Islands read the Tahitian Bible.”

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**Who acts:** Marquesan converts, people · **What happens:** use, read · **To what, where:** Hawaiian books, Tahitian Bible

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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 (Marquesan converts, people), 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:pg66516:31:35
# text = For example, the Marquesan converts are using Hawaiian books and the people of the Austral Islands read the Tahitian Bible.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Marquesan	Marquesan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	converts	convert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Austral	Austral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Tahitian	Tahitian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · progressive | the Marquesan converts | Hawaiian books |  |  |  | for example | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent book=Theme for example=Eventuality |
| 2 | **read** | past | the people of the Austral Islands | the Tahitian Bible |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bible=Topic |

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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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