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title: To my wife, Caroline Castle Westervelt, and my son, Andrew Castle We… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: To my wife, Caroline Castle Westervelt, and my son, Andrew Castle Westervelt, this sixth of my books on Hawaiian Literature is heartily dedicated. Who acts: son. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 5

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To my wife, Caroline Castle Westervelt, and my son, Andrew Castle Westervelt, this sixth of my books on Hawaiian Literature is heartily dedicated.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg66357:1:5
# text = To my wife, Caroline Castle Westervelt, and my son, Andrew Castle Westervelt, this sixth of my books on Hawaiian Literature is heartily dedicated.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Caroline	Caroline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	Westervelt	Westervelt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	Westervelt	Westervelt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my son |  |  |  |  | dedicated, heartily *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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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