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title: As the last report died away in echoes among the surrounding hills,… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: As the last report died away in echoes among the surrounding hills, the Hawaiian national anthem, “Hawaii Ponoi,” in solemn grandeur, stirred the hearts of the multitude. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 153

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As the last report died away in echoes among the surrounding hills, the Hawaiian national anthem, “Hawaii Ponoi,” in solemn grandeur, stirred the hearts of the multitude.

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**What happens:** die away, stir · **To what, where:** Hawaiian national anthem, hearts

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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:pg66357:22:153
# text = As the last report died away in echoes among the surrounding hills, the Hawaiian national anthem, “Hawaii Ponoi,” in solemn grandeur, stirred the hearts of the multitude.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	anthem	anthem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	Ponoi	Ponoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die away** | past |  | the Hawaiian national anthem |  |  |  | as the last report; in solemn grandeur; in echoes among the surrounding hills; away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in echo=Attribute |
| 2 | **stir** | past |  | the hearts of the multitude |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |

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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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