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title: He imagined that he might go alone and do some daring deed, perhaps… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He imagined that he might go alone and do some daring deed, perhaps make a hurried raid upon some unsuspecting point of his enemy’s territories. 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 pragma
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 67

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He imagined that he might go alone and do some daring deed, perhaps make a hurried raid upon some unsuspecting point of his enemy’s territories.

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** imagine, go, do, make, hurry, point · **To what, where:** daring deed, hurried raid, territories

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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:pg66357:18:67
# text = He imagined that he might go alone and do some daring deed, perhaps make a hurried raid upon some unsuspecting point of his enemy’s territories.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	daring	daring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	raid	raid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	unsuspecting	unsuspecting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | past | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | might | chief |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | chief *not said here* | some daring deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive |  | a hurried raid |  |  |  | upon some unsuspecting point of chief's enemy's territories; perhaps *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raid=Product |
| 5 | **hurry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **point** |  |  | chief's enemy's territories |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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