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title: To have turned away from the prince, letting his face look down, wou… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: To have turned away from the prince, letting his face look down, would have been the sign of immediate death of his visitor. Who acts: face, visitor. 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 255

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To have turned away from the prince, letting his face look down, would have been the sign of immediate death of his visitor.

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**Who acts:** face, visitor · **What happens:** turn away, let, look down, be, die · **To what, where:** face, sign

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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 (face, visitor), 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:pg66357:14:255
# text = To have turned away from the prince, letting his face look down, would have been the sign of immediate death of his visitor.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | **turn away** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | from the prince; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from prince=Source |
| 2 | **let** | gerund |  | king's face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look down** | infinitive | king's face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | would · perfect |  | the sign |  |  |  | of immediate death of king's visitor | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** |  | king's visitor |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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