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title: This last meant the abundant entrance of French brandy. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: This last meant the abundant entrance of French brandy. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 101

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This last meant the abundant entrance of French brandy.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** abundant entrance

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg66357:22:101
# text = This last meant the abundant entrance of French brandy.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	last	last	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past | This | the abundant entrance of French brandy |  |  |  | last *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Topic |

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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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