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title: Some of these white leaders and their muskets found their way into t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of these white leaders and their muskets found their way into the service of almost all the important chiefs throughout the islands. Who acts: Some. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 150

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Some of these white leaders and their muskets found their way into the service of almost all the important chiefs throughout the islands.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** find, service · **To what, where:** way, service, important chiefs

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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 (Some), 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:pg66357:18:150
# text = Some of these white leaders and their muskets found their way into the service of almost all the important chiefs throughout the islands.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	muskets	musket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Some of this white leaders and leaders's muskets | muskets's way |  | the service of all important chiefs throughout the islands |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 2 | **service** |  |  | all important chiefs throughout the islands |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=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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