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title: Of course, this was a jumbled mass of words or sounds with but very… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course, this was a jumbled mass of words or sounds with but very little meaning. Who acts: this. 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 86

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Of course, this was a jumbled mass of words or sounds with but very little meaning.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** jumble, be · **To what, where:** jumbled mass

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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), 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:pg66357:12:86
# text = Of course, this was a jumbled mass of words or sounds with but very little meaning.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	jumbled	jumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **jumble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | a jumbled mass but little meaning |  |  |  | of words or sounds; little meaning *conj* | tree rules |

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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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