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title: The best place on Oahu was just back of Leahi, the ancient Hawaiian… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The best place on Oahu was just back of Leahi, the ancient Hawaiian name for Diamond Head. Who acts: best place. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 85

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The best place on Oahu was just back of Leahi, the ancient Hawaiian name for Diamond Head.

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**Who acts:** best place · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best place), 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:pg66516:5:85
# text = The best place on Oahu was just back of Leahi, the ancient Hawaiian name for Diamond Head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Leahi	Leahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the best place on Oahu |  |  |  |  | of Leahi; back *property* | 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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