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title: The palace, of course, was only a large thatched house and could be… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The palace, of course, was only a large thatched house and could be easily replaced, but the posts, consecrated by the blood of human sacrifices and cared for through many generations, were irretrievably lost. Who acts: palace. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 62

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The palace, of course, was only a large thatched house and could be easily replaced, but the posts, consecrated by the blood of human sacrifices and cared for through many generations, were irretrievably lost.

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**Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** thatch, be, replace, consecrate, care, lose · **To what, where:** large thatched house, posts

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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 (palace), 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:pg66357:17:62
# text = The palace, of course, was only a large thatched house and could be easily replaced, but the posts, consecrated by the blood of human sacrifices and cared for through many generations, were irretrievably lost.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
38	irretrievably	irretrievably	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the palace and course | a large thatched house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **replace** | could · passive | the palace and course *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme» |
| 4 | **consecrate** | participle |  | the posts *not said here* |  |  |  | by the blood of human sacrifices | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **care** | past |  |  |  |  | for many generations |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for generation=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the posts |  |  |  | irretrievably *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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