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title: Then came a carousal, after which a tipsy woman stumbled into her hu… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came a carousal, after which a tipsy woman stumbled into her husband’s eating-house and was put to death for violating the tabu. Who acts: tipsy woman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 51

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Then came a carousal, after which a tipsy woman stumbled into her husband’s eating-house and was put to death for violating the tabu.

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**Who acts:** tipsy woman · **What happens:** come, stumble, put, violate · **To what, where:** carousal, eating house, tabu

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tipsy woman), 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:pg66357:19:51
# text = Then came a carousal, after which a tipsy woman stumbled into her husband’s eating-house and was put to death for violating the tabu.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carousal	carousal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tipsy	tipsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	violating	violate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	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 | **come** | past |  | a carousal |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carousal=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | participle | a tipsy woman |  |  | manu's husband's eating house |  | which *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination |
| 3 | **put** | past · passive | a tipsy woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 4 | **violate** | gerund | a tipsy woman *not said here* | the tabu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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