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title: On August 12, 1898, thousands of people again crowded into the gover… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: On August 12, 1898, thousands of people again crowded into the government grounds. Who acts: thousands. 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 147

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On August 12, 1898, thousands of people again crowded into the government grounds.

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**Who acts:** thousands · **What happens:** crowd · **To what, where:** 12

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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 (thousands), 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:pg66357:22:147
# text = On August 12, 1898, thousands of people again crowded into the government grounds.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1898	1898	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd** | past | thousands of people |  |  | 12  August | again | into the government grounds | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on 12=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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