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title: It was a tremendously effective weapon, when matched with wooden dag… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a tremendously effective weapon, when matched with wooden daggers and war clubs. Who acts: captain. 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 42

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It was a tremendously effective weapon, when matched with wooden daggers and war clubs.

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** be, match · **To what, where:** effective weapon

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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 (captain), 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:pg66357:11:42
# text = It was a tremendously effective weapon, when matched with wooden daggers and war clubs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	daggers	dagger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | captain | a effective weapon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **match** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with wooden daggers and war clubs | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with dagger=Co-Patient |

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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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