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title: When the clove came to Rome, the haughty lovers of spices exclaimed… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the clove came to Rome, the haughty lovers of spices exclaimed “clavus”—“a nail.” Who acts: clove, spices. 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 2

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When the clove came to Rome, the haughty lovers of spices exclaimed “clavus”—“a nail.”

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**Who acts:** clove, spices · **What happens:** come, exclaim · **To what, where:** Rome, clavus, nail

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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 (clove, spices), 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:pg66357:11:2
# text = When the clove came to Rome, the haughty lovers of spices exclaimed “clavus”—“a nail.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clove	clove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	clavus	clavus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the clove |  |  | Rome and the haughty lovers of spices |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | participle | spices *not said here* | clavus |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clavus=Topic |

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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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