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title: Great preparations were made for the solemn exercises attending the… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Great preparations were made for the solemn exercises attending the transfer of the Republic of Hawaii to the Republic of the United States. Who acts: solemn exercises. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 146

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Great preparations were made for the solemn exercises attending the transfer of the Republic of Hawaii to the Republic of the United States.

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**Who acts:** solemn exercises · **What happens:** make, attend, transfer · **To what, where:** Great preparations, transfer, Republic

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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 (solemn exercises), 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:pg66357:22:146
# text = Great preparations were made for the solemn exercises attending the transfer of the Republic of Hawaii to the Republic of the United States.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	preparations	preparation	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	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	transfer	transfer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | Great preparations |  |  |  | for the solemn exercises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for exercise=Asset |
| 2 | **attend** | gerund | the solemn exercises *not said here* | the transfer of the Republic of Hawaii |  |  |  | to the Republic of the United States | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme transfer=Goal |
| 3 | **transfer** |  |  | the Republic of Hawaii |  |  |  |  | nom transfer «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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