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title: Therefore the entire northern, group of islands was able to combine… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore the entire northern, group of islands was able to combine against Hawaii. Who acts: entire northern group. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 19

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Therefore the entire northern, group of islands was able to combine against Hawaii.

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**Who acts:** entire northern group · **What happens:** be, combine

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (entire northern group), 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:pg66357:17:19
# text = Therefore the entire northern, group of islands was able to combine against Hawaii.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	combine	combine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the entire northern group of islands |  |  |  |  | able, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **combine** | to-infinitive | the entire northern group of islands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Hawaii | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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