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description: This gave an example of the most sacred tabu chief in the land violating tabu with her little son. Who acts: This, land. 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 70

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This gave an example of the most sacred tabu chief in the land violating tabu with her little son.

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**Who acts:** This, land · **What happens:** give, violate, exemplify · **To what, where:** example, tabu, sacred tabu chief

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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 (This, land), 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:pg66357:19:70
# text = This gave an example of the most sacred tabu chief in the land violating tabu with her little son.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	violating	violate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	tabu	tabu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | This | a example of the sacred tabu chief in the land |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme |
| 2 | **violate** | gerund | the land *not said here* | tabu |  |  |  | with liho's little son | tree rules |
| 3 | **exemplify** |  |  | the sacred tabu chief in the land |  |  |  |  | nom example «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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