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title: There had been too many past personalities between them, and she had… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There had been too many past personalities between them, and she had evidently been a vigorous endorser of her husband’s invasions into her old homeland. Who acts: queen, husband. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 241

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There had been too many past personalities between them, and she had evidently been a vigorous endorser of her husband’s invasions into her old homeland.

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**Who acts:** queen, husband · **What happens:** have, be, invade · **To what, where:** old homeland, many past personalities, vigorous endorser

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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 (queen, husband), 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:pg66357:14:241
# text = There had been too many past personalities between them, and she had evidently been a vigorous endorser of her husband’s invasions into her old homeland.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	personalities	personality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
14	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	endorser	endorser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	invasions	invasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	homeland	homeland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  | queen's old homeland; there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | many past personalities |  |  |  | between personalities *= personality* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | queen | a vigorous endorser |  |  |  | of queen's husband's invasions; evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **invade** |  | queen's husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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