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title: The home was without windows or doors, save as low openings in the e… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The home was without windows or doors, save as low openings in the ends or sides allowed entrance to those willing to crawl through. Who acts: home, ends, entrance. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 50

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The home was without windows or doors, save as low openings in the ends or sides allowed entrance to those willing to crawl through.

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**Who acts:** home, ends, entrance · **What happens:** be, save, allow, crawl · **To what, where:** low openings, ends, entrance

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, ends, entrance), 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:pg66357:2:50
# text = The home was without windows or doors, save as low openings in the ends or sides allowed entrance to those willing to crawl through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
22	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	through	through	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the home |  |  |  |  | without windows or doors; doors *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | low openings |  |  | in the ends or sides |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Theme |
| 3 | **allow** | participle | the ends or sides *not said here* | entrance |  |  | to the ends or sides |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme to that=Goal |
| 4 | **crawl** | to-infinitive | entrance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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