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description: There are slightly different versions of the tale as frequently occurs when handed down verbally through different channels. Who acts: different versions. 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 4

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There are slightly different versions of the tale as frequently occurs when handed down verbally through different channels.

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**Who acts:** different versions · **What happens:** be, occur, hand down · **To what, where:** different channels

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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 (different versions), 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:pg66357:18:4
# text = There are slightly different versions of the tale as frequently occurs when handed down verbally through different channels.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	verbally	verbally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | different versions of the tale |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | present | different versions of the tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | frequently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hand down** | participle | different versions of the tale *not said here* |  |  | different channels |  | verbally *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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