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title: Nevertheless, the flood could not be held back and the privilege of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, the flood could not be held back and the privilege of reading and writing rapidly spread among the people. Who acts: privilege. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 34

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Nevertheless, the flood could not be held back and the privilege of reading and writing rapidly spread among the people.

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**Who acts:** privilege · **What happens:** not hold back, spread · **To what, where:** flood

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (privilege), 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:pg66357:20:34
# text = Nevertheless, the flood could not be held back and the privilege of reading and writing rapidly spread among the people.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold back** | could · passive |  | the flood |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | past | the privilege of reading and writing |  |  |  |  | among the people; rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among people=Location |

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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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