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title: So he sent messengers throughout both districts summoning all the pe… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: So he sent messengers throughout both districts summoning all the people to a great meeting in Hilo. Who acts: man, districts. 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 166

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So he sent messengers throughout both districts summoning all the people to a great meeting in Hilo.

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**Who acts:** man, districts · **What happens:** send, summon · **To what, where:** messengers, people

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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 (man, districts), 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:pg66357:18:166
# text = So he sent messengers throughout both districts summoning all the people to a great meeting in Hilo.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | man | messengers |  |  | throughout both districts |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 2 | **summon** | gerund | both districts *not said here* |  | all people |  |  | to a great meeting in Hilo | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |

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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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