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title: Then they pounded the bark into sheets which they stained with veget… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they pounded the bark into sheets which they stained with vegetable and mineral dyes. Who acts: makers, sheets. 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 65

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Then they pounded the bark into sheets which they stained with vegetable and mineral dyes.

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**Who acts:** makers, sheets · **What happens:** pound, stain · **To what, where:** bark, sheets

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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 (makers, sheets), 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:pg66357:14:65
# text = Then they pounded the bark into sheets which they stained with vegetable and mineral dyes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pounded	pound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stained	stain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	mineral	mineral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pound** | past | makers *= maker* | the bark |  | sheets | then |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bark=Material into sheet=Product |
| 2 | **stain** | past | sheets |  |  |  |  | with vegetable and mineral dyes; makers *= maker* *nsubj* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vegetable=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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