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title: But the chief touched them not and passed through their lines out to… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But the chief touched them not and passed through their lines out to the houses in which the Puna people were confined. Who acts: chief. 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 180

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But the chief touched them not and passed through their lines out to the houses in which the Puna people were confined.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** not touch, pass, confine · **To what, where:** prisoners, lines, Puna people, houses

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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 (chief), 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:pg66357:18:180
# text = But the chief touched them not and passed through their lines out to the houses in which the Puna people were confined.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | past | the chief | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | the chief *not said here* |  |  | prisoners's lines |  | to the houses; out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through line=Initial\_Location to house=Destination |
| 3 | **confine** | past · passive |  | the Puna people |  | the houses |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |

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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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