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title: Probably some of them had carelessly watched the approach of eight c… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Probably some of them had carelessly watched the approach of eight chiefs of Oahu. Who acts: eight chiefs. 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 34

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Probably some of them had carelessly watched the approach of eight chiefs of Oahu.

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**Who acts:** eight chiefs · **What happens:** watch, approach · **To what, where:** some

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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 chiefs), 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:pg66357:16:34
# text = Probably some of them had carelessly watched the approach of eight chiefs of Oahu.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · passive |  | some of warriors |  |  |  | the approach of eight chiefs of Oahu *obj*; carelessly, probably *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme approach=Attribute |
| 2 | **approach** |  | eight chiefs of Oahu |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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