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title: When he had made full preparation he started on his journey, attende… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had made full preparation he started on his journey, attended by the usual large train of servants and companions. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 35

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When he had made full preparation he started on his journey, attended by the usual large train of servants and companions.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** make, start, attend, journey · **To what, where:** full preparation, journey

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg66357:15:35
# text = When he had made full preparation he started on his journey, attended by the usual large train of servants and companions.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect | king | full preparation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Product |
| 2 | **start** | past | king |  |  | king's journey |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  | king's journey *not said here* |  |  |  | by the usual large train of servants and companions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by train=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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