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title: He wore his finest neck ornaments, his most costly feather cloak and… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He wore his finest neck ornaments, his most costly feather cloak and girdle and helmet. Who acts: Kiwalao. 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 245

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He wore his finest neck ornaments, his most costly feather cloak and girdle and helmet.

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**Who acts:** Kiwalao · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** finest neck ornaments

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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 (Kiwalao), 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:pg66357:14:245
# text = He wore his finest neck ornaments, his most costly feather cloak and girdle and helmet.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Kiwalao | Kiwalao's finest neck ornaments |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ornament=Source |

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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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