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title: The regimental uniform—light bamboo helmets, feather-coated and cres… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The regimental uniform—light bamboo helmets, feather-coated and crested with brilliant plumes, added to the majestic appearance of these stalwart chiefs. 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 80

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The regimental uniform—light bamboo helmets, feather-coated and crested with brilliant plumes, added to the majestic appearance of these stalwart chiefs.

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**What happens:** coat, crest, add · **To what, where:** light bamboo helmets, brilliant plumes, regimental uniform

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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: 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:pg66357:14:80
# text = The regimental uniform—light bamboo helmets, feather-coated and crested with brilliant plumes, added to the majestic appearance of these stalwart chiefs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	regimental	regimental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	coated	coat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	crested	crest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	stalwart	stalwart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coat** | participle |  | light bamboo helmets *not said here* |  |  |  | feather *compound* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with brilliant plumes | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | brilliant plumes *not said here* |  |  |  | to the majestic appearance of this stalwart chiefs | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to appearance=Co-Patient |

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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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