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title: The uninvited guest was unwelcome because no preparation had been ma… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The uninvited guest was unwelcome because no preparation had been made for the reception. Who acts: uninvited guest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 13

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The uninvited guest was unwelcome because no preparation had been made for the reception.

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**Who acts:** uninvited guest · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** preparation

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uninvited guest), 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:pg66357:16:13
# text = The uninvited guest was unwelcome because no preparation had been made for the reception.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	uninvited	uninvited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unwelcome	unwelcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the uninvited guest |  |  |  |  | unwelcome *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | no preparation |  |  |  | for the reception | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for reception=Asset |

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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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