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title: “No,” replied the elder chief, resting on his spear, “the men of Hil… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “No,” replied the elder chief, resting on his spear, “the men of Hilo have crawled back to their homes to heal their wounds. Who acts: elder chief, men, points. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 14

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“No,” replied the elder chief, resting on his spear, “the men of Hilo have crawled back to their homes to heal their wounds.

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**Who acts:** elder chief, men, points · **What happens:** reply, rest, crawl back, heal, wound · **To what, where:** spear, homes, wounds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder chief, men, points), 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:pg66357:18:14
# text = “No,” replied the elder chief, resting on his spear, “the men of Hilo have crawled back to their homes to heal their wounds.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the elder chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | gerund | the elder chief *not said here* |  |  | chief's spear |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spear=Location |
| 3 | **crawl back** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the men of Hilo |  |  | points's homes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to home=Destination |
| 4 | **heal** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the men of Hilo *not said here* | points's wounds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 5 | **wound** *in a quote* |  | points *= point* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: 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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