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title: Not only did the romance of far-away lands and mighty deeds attract… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Not only did the romance of far-away lands and mighty deeds attract attention, but his personal appearance and royal bearing seemed to have conquered all who came near. Who acts: romance, personal appearance, away lands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahit
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 46

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Not only did the romance of far-away lands and mighty deeds attract attention, but his personal appearance and royal bearing seemed to have conquered all who came near.

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**Who acts:** romance, personal appearance, away lands · **What happens:** not do, attract, seem, conquer, come, romance · **To what, where:** attention, all

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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 (romance, personal appearance, away lands), 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:pg66357:10:46
# text = Not only did the romance of far-away lands and mighty deeds attract attention, but his personal appearance and royal bearing seemed to have conquered all who came near.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	amod	_	_
10	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	attract	attract	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	near	near	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attract** | present | the romance of away lands and mighty deeds | attention |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past | romance's personal appearance and royal bearing |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **conquer** | to-infinitive · perfect | romance's personal appearance and royal bearing *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **romance** |  | away lands and mighty deeds |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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