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title: Several hundred warriors from Maui were stationed near this temple a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Several hundred warriors from Maui were stationed near this temple at the foot of Diamond Head. 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 33

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Several hundred warriors from Maui were stationed near this temple at the foot of Diamond Head.

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**What happens:** station · **To what, where:** Several hundred warriors, temple

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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: 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:pg66357:16:33
# text = Several hundred warriors from Maui were stationed near this temple at the foot of Diamond Head.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Maui	Maui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	stationed	station	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **station** | past · passive |  | Several hundred warriors from Maui |  | this temple at the foot of Diamond Head |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme near temple=Destination |

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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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