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title: The man coming after 7 o’clock in the morning was fined an eighth of… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The man coming after 7 o’clock in the morning was fined an eighth of a dollar, and after dinner a fourth of a dollar. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 73

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The man coming after 7 o’clock in the morning was fined an eighth of a dollar, and after dinner a fourth of a dollar.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** come, fine · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg66357:21:73
# text = The man coming after 7 o’clock in the morning was fined an eighth of a dollar, and after dinner a fourth of a dollar.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	fined	fine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eighth	eighth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  | after 7 o’clock; morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fine** | past · passive |  | the man |  |  | after dinner | a eighth of a dollar *obj* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient eighth=Asset |

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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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