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title: Some giant chief with marked helmet towered above his fellows and wa… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Some giant chief with marked helmet towered above his fellows and was the centre around which his followers could gather. Who acts: followers. 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 178

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Some giant chief with marked helmet towered above his fellows and was the centre around which his followers could gather.

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**Who acts:** followers · **What happens:** mark, tower, be, gather · **To what, where:** marked helmet, centre, giant chief

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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 (followers), 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:pg66357:14:178
# text = Some giant chief with marked helmet towered above his fellows and was the centre around which his followers could gather.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	towered	tower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tower** | participle |  | marked helmet *not said here* |  |  |  | above series's fellows | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above fellow=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the centre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gather** | could | series's followers |  |  | the centre |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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