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title: An impromptu mass meeting was held in the afternoon and a committee… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: An impromptu mass meeting was held in the afternoon and a committee of public safety of thirteen was appointed. 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 115

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An impromptu mass meeting was held in the afternoon and a committee of public safety of thirteen was appointed.

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**What happens:** hold, appoint · **To what, where:** impromptu mass meeting, committee

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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: 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:pg66357:22:115
# text = An impromptu mass meeting was held in the afternoon and a committee of public safety of thirteen was appointed.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	impromptu	impromptu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	committee	committee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | a impromptu mass meeting |  |  | afternoon |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | a committee of public safety of thirteen |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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