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title: He built a new coral rock fort, 300 × 400 feet dimensions, with wall… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: He built a new coral rock fort, 300 × 400 feet dimensions, with walls twelve feet high and twenty feet thick. Who acts: Kauai. 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 46

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He built a new coral rock fort, 300 × 400 feet dimensions, with walls twelve feet high and twenty feet thick.

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**Who acts:** Kauai · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** new coral rock fort

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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 (Kauai), 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:pg66357:22:46
# text = He built a new coral rock fort, 300 × 400 feet dimensions, with walls twelve feet high and twenty feet thick.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	9	dep	_	_
11	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Kauai | a new coral rock fort  300 feet dimensions |  |  |  | walls *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Product |

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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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