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title: The marines were stationed at the American legation and the sailors… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The marines were stationed at the American legation and the sailors at Arion Hall. 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 120

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The marines were stationed at the American legation and the sailors at Arion Hall.

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**What happens:** station · **To what, where:** marines, American legation

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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:pg66357:22:120
# text = The marines were stationed at the American legation and the sailors at Arion Hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marines	marine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stationed	station	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legation	legation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Arion	Arion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **station** | past · passive |  | the marines |  | the American legation at Arion Hall and the sailors |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at legation=Destination |

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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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