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title: Perhaps the misty mountains concealed the sun until the forenoon was… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps the misty mountains concealed the sun until the forenoon was far spent. Who acts: misty mountains. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 105

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Perhaps the misty mountains concealed the sun until the forenoon was far spent.

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**Who acts:** misty mountains · **What happens:** conceal, spend · **To what, where:** sun, forenoon

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misty mountains), 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:pg66357:11:105
# text = Perhaps the misty mountains concealed the sun until the forenoon was far spent.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forenoon	forenoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past | the misty mountains | the sun |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
| 2 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the forenoon |  |  |  | far *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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