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title: This was probably the best stroke of diplomacy exercised by him duri… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This was probably the best stroke of diplomacy exercised by him during all his great work of welding the scattered islands into a united kingdom. Who acts: This, great work, Kaiana. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 5

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This was probably the best stroke of diplomacy exercised by him during all his great work of welding the scattered islands into a united kingdom.

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**Who acts:** This, great work, Kaiana · **What happens:** be, exercise, weld, work · **To what, where:** best stroke, scattered islands

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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 (This, great work, Kaiana), 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:pg66357:17:5
# text = This was probably the best stroke of diplomacy exercised by him during all his great work of welding the scattered islands into a united kingdom.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	diplomacy	diplomacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	welding	weld	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	21	amod	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the best stroke |  |  |  | of diplomacy; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exercise** | participle |  | the best stroke *not said here* |  |  | during Kaiana's great work | by Kaiana | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weld** | gerund | Kaiana's great work *not said here* | the scattered islands |  |  |  | into a united kingdom | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent island=Patient into kingdom=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **work** |  | Kaiana |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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