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title: Then came the visit of “Paramount Blount,” who arrived in Honolulu M… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the visit of “Paramount Blount,” who arrived in Honolulu March 29. 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 132

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Then came the visit of “Paramount Blount,” who arrived in Honolulu March 29.

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**What happens:** come, arrive, visit · **To what, where:** visit, Honolulu, Paramount

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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:pg66357:22:132
# text = Then came the visit of “Paramount Blount,” who arrived in Honolulu March 29.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Paramount	Paramount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Blount	Blount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the visit of Paramount |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location visit=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  | Honolulu |  | who *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **visit** |  |  | Paramount |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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