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title: In this company there were eight famous warriors, who seemed to thin… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: In this company there were eight famous warriors, who seemed to think themselves invulnerable. Who acts: eight famous warriors. 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 17

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In this company there were eight famous warriors, who seemed to think themselves invulnerable.

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**Who acts:** eight famous warriors · **What happens:** be, seem, think · **To what, where:** company, warriors

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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 (eight famous warriors), 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:pg66357:16:17
# text = In this company there were eight famous warriors, who seemed to think themselves invulnerable.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	invulnerable	invulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | eight famous warriors |  |  | this company; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | eight famous warriors |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | eight famous warriors *not said here* | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  | invulnerable *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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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