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title: They entered with zeal into the national sports as well as into the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They entered with zeal into the national sports as well as into the national quarrels. Who acts: eyes. 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 70

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They entered with zeal into the national sports as well as into the national quarrels.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** enter · **To what, where:** national sports

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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 (eyes), 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:pg66357:11:70
# text = They entered with zeal into the national sports as well as into the national quarrels.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the national sports |  | with zeal; the national quarrels *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sport=Initial\_Location |

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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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