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title: After this there was promiscuous living among the men of the ship an… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After this there was promiscuous living among the men of the ship and the people of the land, with the result that the vile diseases of the white people were quickly scattered over all the islands. Who acts: this, result. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook,
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 76

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After this there was promiscuous living among the men of the ship and the people of the land, with the result that the vile diseases of the white people were quickly scattered over all the islands.

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**Who acts:** this, result · **What happens:** be, live, scatter · **To what, where:** vile diseases, islands

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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 (this, result), 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:pg66357:12:76
# text = After this there was promiscuous living among the men of the ship and the people of the land, with the result that the vile diseases of the white people were quickly scattered over all the islands.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	promiscuous	promiscuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  | there |  | the result *conj*; promiscuous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the men of the ship and the people of the land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location |
| 3 | **scatter** | past · passive | the result *not said here* | the vile diseases of the white people |  | all islands |  | quickly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over island=Destination |

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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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