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title: Soon a crowd of people came together, shouting with fear and confuse… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon a crowd of people came together, shouting with fear and confused thought until the harbour resounded with noise. Who acts: crowd, confused. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 27

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Soon a crowd of people came together, shouting with fear and confused thought until the harbour resounded with noise.

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**Who acts:** crowd, confused · **What happens:** come together, shout, think, resound · **To what, where:** fear, harbour

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, confused), 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:pg66357:12:27
# text = Soon a crowd of people came together, shouting with fear and confused thought until the harbour resounded with noise.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl	_	_
15	until	until	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	resounded	resound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come together** | past | a crowd of people |  |  |  |  | soon, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | a crowd of people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fear | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | confused | fear *not said here* |  |  | until the harbour |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fear=Theme |
| 4 | **resound** | participle |  | the harbour *not said here* |  |  |  | with noise | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme |

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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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