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title: While this preparation was going on, a new element entered into Hawa… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: While this preparation was going on, a new element entered into Hawaiian warfare. Who acts: preparation, new element. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 147

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While this preparation was going on, a new element entered into Hawaiian warfare.

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**Who acts:** preparation, new element · **What happens:** go on, enter · **To what, where:** Hawaiian warfare

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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 (preparation, new element), 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:pg66357:18:147
# text = While this preparation was going on, a new element entered into Hawaiian warfare.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · progressive | this preparation |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | past | a new element |  |  | Hawaiian warfare |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into warfare=Initial\_Location |

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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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