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title: Hundreds of workmen hewed and scraped and other hundreds polished, u… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Hundreds of workmen hewed and scraped and other hundreds polished, until at last a large fleet of canoes and a vast quantity of weapons were prepared. Who acts: Hundreds, last large fleet. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 60

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Hundreds of workmen hewed and scraped and other hundreds polished, until at last a large fleet of canoes and a vast quantity of weapons were prepared.

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**Who acts:** Hundreds, last large fleet · **What happens:** hew, scrape, polish, be · **To what, where:** workmen

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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 (Hundreds, last large fleet), 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:pg66357:14:60
# text = Hundreds of workmen hewed and scraped and other hundreds polished, until at last a large fleet of canoes and a vast quantity of weapons were prepared.
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	hewed	hew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scraped	scrape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	polished	polish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hew** | participle |  | workmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **scrape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **polish** | past | Hundreds of workmen and other hundreds |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | a last large fleet of canoes and a vast quantity of weapons |  |  |  |  | prepared *property* | tree rules |

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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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