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title: The chiefs looked over the sandy isthmus lying between the two great… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The chiefs looked over the sandy isthmus lying between the two great Maui mountains—Mt. Who acts: chiefs, sandy isthmus. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 144

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The chiefs looked over the sandy isthmus lying between the two great Maui mountains—Mt.

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**Who acts:** chiefs, sandy isthmus · **What happens:** look, lie · **To what, where:** two great Maui mountains

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs, sandy isthmus), 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:pg66357:14:144
# text = The chiefs looked over the sandy isthmus lying between the two great Maui mountains—Mt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	isthmus	isthmus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Mt	Mt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | past | the chiefs |  |  |  |  | over the sandy isthmus | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over isthmus=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | the sandy isthmus *not said here* |  |  | the two great Maui mountains |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between mountain=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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