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title: It was an interesting scene when these common men were brought befor… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: It was an interesting scene when these common men were brought before the chiefs for final judgment. Who acts: head, chiefs. 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 184

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It was an interesting scene when these common men were brought before the chiefs for final judgment.

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**Who acts:** head, chiefs · **What happens:** be, bring · **To what, where:** interesting scene, common men

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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 (head, chiefs), 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:pg66357:18:184
# text = It was an interesting scene when these common men were brought before the chiefs for final judgment.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | head | a interesting scene |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive | the chiefs | this common men |  |  |  | for final judgment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=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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