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title: The trail which they followed led in and out among great boulders un… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The trail which they followed led in and out among great boulders until they came to the sandy slopes of Diamond Head. Who acts: trail. 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 29

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The trail which they followed led in and out among great boulders until they came to the sandy slopes of Diamond Head.

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**Who acts:** trail · **What happens:** lead, come · **To what, where:** trail, great boulders, sandy slopes

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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 (trail), 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:pg66357:16:29
# text = The trail which they followed led in and out among great boulders until they came to the sandy slopes of Diamond Head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · passive |  | the trail |  | great boulders |  | fragments *= fragment* *nsubj* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among boulder=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | the trail |  |  | the sandy slopes of Diamond Head |  | fragments *= fragment* *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to slope=Initial\_Location |

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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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