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title: This was a course of training well fitted to make Laa high-spirited,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a course of training well fitted to make Laa high-spirited, courageous and ever ready to take the leadership among his fellow-chiefs in the new land where he made his home. Who acts: This, course, manhood. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti, wit
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 18

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This was a course of training well fitted to make Laa high-spirited, courageous and ever ready to take the leadership among his fellow-chiefs in the new land where he made his home.

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**Who acts:** This, course, manhood · **What happens:** be, train, fit, make, take · **To what, where:** course, leadership, new land, home

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, course, manhood), 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:pg66357:10:18
# text = This was a course of training well fitted to make Laa high-spirited, courageous and ever ready to take the leadership among his fellow-chiefs in the new land where he made his home.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	training	train	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	Laa	Laa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	spirited	spirited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leadership	leadership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a course |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **train** | gerund | a course *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | the leadership |  | the new land |  | among manhood's fellow chiefs | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leadership=Value in land=Location |
| 6 | **make** | past | manhood | manhood's home |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product |

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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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