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title: The Hawaiian and United States officials, the diplomatic corps and a… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiian and United States officials, the diplomatic corps and a few friends filled the grandstand. Who acts: Hawaiian. 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 150

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The Hawaiian and United States officials, the diplomatic corps and a few friends filled the grandstand.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian · **What happens:** fill · **To what, where:** grandstand

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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 (Hawaiian), 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:pg66357:22:150
# text = The Hawaiian and United States officials, the diplomatic corps and a few friends filled the grandstand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	corps	corps	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grandstand	grandstand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | the Hawaiian and States officials and a few friends | the grandstand |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grandstand=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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