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title: But no writer has chronicled how the young husband carried the news… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: But no writer has chronicled how the young husband carried the news from Kailua to the grass house under the cocoanut trees. Who acts: writer, young husband. 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 86

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But no writer has chronicled how the young husband carried the news from Kailua to the grass house under the cocoanut trees.

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**Who acts:** writer, young husband · **What happens:** chronicle, carry · **To what, where:** news, Kailua

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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 (writer, young husband), 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:pg66357:19:86
# text = But no writer has chronicled how the young husband carried the news from Kailua to the grass house under the cocoanut trees.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chronicled	chronicle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kailua	Kailua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chronicle** | present · perfect | no writer |  |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the young husband | the news |  | Kailua |  | to the grass house; under the cocoanut trees | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme from kailua=Initial\_Location to house=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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